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As long as the hardware functions as it should (e.g. respects barriers) and there is no software bug in the stack, no.
That's a highly unlikely scenario though. Make backups.
I had some kernel panics here and there... but the last one panic was fatal. Suddenly a lot of /usr/lib/lib.so files were empty and also X11 stopped working...