When we're at our vnode limit, getnewvnode will call into the vnode LRU
cache to free up vnodes. If the vnode we try to recycle is a ZFS vnode we
end up, eventually, in zfs_rmnode. If the ZFS vnode we're recycling
represents something with extended attributes, zfs_rmnode will call
zfs_zget which will attempt to allocate another vnode. If the next vnode we
try to recycle is also a ZFS vnode representing something with extended
attributes we can recurse further. This ends up being unbounded and can end
up overflowing the stack.
In order to avoid this, restructure zfs_rmnode to simply add the extended
attribute directory's object ID to the unlinked set, thus not requiring the
allocation of a vnode. We then schedule a task that calls zfs_unlinked_drain
which will do the work of properly marking the vnodes for unlinking.
zfs_unlinked_drain is also called on mount so these will be cleaned up
there.
Reviewed by: avg, mav
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15342
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