Java HashMap.get(Object) infinite loop

Question

A few answers on SO mention that the get method in a HashMap can fall into an infinite loop (e.g. this one or this one) if not synchronized properly (and usually the bottom line

Answer 1

Given that the only possibility I see for an infinite loop would be e.next = e within the get method:

for (Entry e = table[indexFor(hash, table.length)]; e != null; e = e.next)

And that could only happen in the transfer method during a resizing:

 do {
     Entry next = e.next;
     int i = indexFor(e.hash, newCapacity);
     e.next = newTable[i]; //here e.next could point on e if the table is modified by another thread
     newTable[i] = e;
     e = next;
 } while (e != null);

If only one thread is modifying the Map, I believe it is quite impossible to have an infinite loop with just one thread. It was more obvious with the old implementation of get before the jdk 6 (or 5):

public Object get(Object key) {
        Object k = maskNull(key);
        int hash = hash(k);
        int i = indexFor(hash, table.length);
        Entry e = table[i]; 
        while (true) {
            if (e == null)
                return e;
            if (e.hash == hash && eq(k, e.key)) 
                return e.value;
            e = e.next;
        }
    }

Even then the case still seems pretty improbable except if there are a lot of collisions.

P.S: I'd love to be proven wrong though!