OpenZFS 9330 - stack overflow when creating a deeply nested dataset

Datasets that are deeply nested (~100 levels) are impractical. We just
put a limit of 50 levels to newly created datasets. Existing datasets
should work without a problem.

The problem can be seen by attempting to create a dataset using the -p
option with many levels:

    panic[cpu0]/thread=ffffff01cd282c20: BAD TRAP: type=8 (#df Double fault) rp=ffffffff

    fffffffffbc3aa60 unix:die+100 ()
    fffffffffbc3ab70 unix:trap+157d ()
    ffffff00083d7020 unix:_patch_xrstorq_rbx+196 ()
    ffffff00083d7050 zfs:dbuf_rele+2e ()
    ...
    ffffff00083d7080 zfs:dsl_dir_close+32 ()
    ffffff00083d70b0 zfs:dsl_dir_evict+30 ()
    ffffff00083d70d0 zfs:dbuf_evict_user+4a ()
    ffffff00083d7100 zfs:dbuf_rele_and_unlock+87 ()
    ffffff00083d7130 zfs:dbuf_rele+2e ()
    ... The block above repeats once per directory in the ...
    ... create -p command, working towards the root ...
    ffffff00083db9f0 zfs:dsl_dataset_drop_ref+19 ()
    ffffff00083dba20 zfs:dsl_dataset_rele+42 ()
    ffffff00083dba70 zfs:dmu_objset_prefetch+e4 ()
    ffffff00083dbaa0 zfs:findfunc+23 ()
    ffffff00083dbb80 zfs:dmu_objset_find_spa+38c ()
    ffffff00083dbbc0 zfs:dmu_objset_find+40 ()
    ffffff00083dbc20 zfs:zfs_ioc_snapshot_list_next+4b ()
    ffffff00083dbcc0 zfs:zfsdev_ioctl+347 ()
    ffffff00083dbd00 genunix:cdev_ioctl+45 ()
    ffffff00083dbd40 specfs:spec_ioctl+5a ()
    ffffff00083dbdc0 genunix:fop_ioctl+7b ()
    ffffff00083dbec0 genunix:ioctl+18e ()
    ffffff00083dbf10 unix:brand_sys_sysenter+1c9 ()

Porting notes:
* Added zfs_max_dataset_nesting module option with documentation.
* Updated zfs_rename_014_neg.ksh for Linux.
* Increase the zfs.sh stack warning to 15K.  Enough time has passed
  that 16K can be reasonably assumed to be the default value.  It
  was increased in the 3.15 kernel released in June of 2014.

Authored by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <[email protected]>
Reviewed by: John Kennedy <[email protected]>
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <[email protected]>
Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]>

OpenZFS-issue: https://www.illumos.org/issues/9330
OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/commit/757a75a
Closes #7681

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/man/man8/zfs.8 b/man/man8/zfs.8
index db5c3f3e2..5a74c66f4 100644
--- a/man/man8/zfs.8
+++ b/man/man8/zfs.8
@@ -343,7 +343,8 @@ pool/{filesystem,volume,snapshot}
 .Pp
 where the maximum length of a dataset name is
 .Dv MAXNAMELEN
-.Pq 256 bytes .
+.Pq 256 bytes
+and the maximum amount of nesting allowed in a path is 50 levels deep.
 .Pp
 A dataset can be one of the following:
 .Bl -tag -width "file system"