That's a good point. I'm hoping that this never gets hit, and if that line ever appears in the logs, then things are already broken. However, it's probably bett

That's a good point. I'm hoping that this never gets hit, and if that line ever appears in the logs, then things are already broken. However, it's probably better to improve the failure mode where possible :) [edit] and yes, since we break and don't follow the `next` pointer in the linked list, that also shouldn't cause any problems. [edit 2] a sibling comment by cesarb pointed out that printk actually does not block, since it's important for it to be usable in critical sections to debug when the kernel gets into trouble