With the passive note “Winds of Justice” that has a chance to cast Smite while Channeling it costs always 3 Mana, even when you spec into “Desperate Measures” in the Smite Tree that makes it for free when you are out of mana.
Also, when you put the channeling cost of Warpath to 0 it still cancels the channeling when you run into manadebt because of the Smite interaction.
I’m not 100% sure if that’s intended, but it feels really bad to stop channeling because the Smite passive doesn’t work when cast through Warpath.
This is also the same interaction with the Abyssal echo’s interaction. I think its more nature of the beast tho. Mana gets dropped below 0. channel tick happens. even though you channel cost is 0 it still checks for positive mana first then mana cost. thats why you get knocked out. Although this could be an unintended reaction as well so let the devs hash it out!