RecursionError with hundreds of nested attribute accesses

[correctmost]

Steps to reproduce

The following code triggers a RecursionError in astroid:

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This bug was discovered by OSS-Fuzz: https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/402175220 (report not public yet)

Current behavior

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pylint/pylint/lint/pylinter.py", line 993, in get_ast
    return MANAGER.ast_from_file(filepath, modname, source=True)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/manager.py", line 165, in ast_from_file
    return AstroidBuilder(self).file_build(filepath, modname)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/builder.py", line 144, in file_build
    module, builder = self._data_build(data, modname, path)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/builder.py", line 206, in _data_build
    module = builder.visit_module(node, modname, node_file, package)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 173, in visit_module
    [self.visit(child, newnode) for child in node.body],
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 173, in <listcomp>
    [self.visit(child, newnode) for child in node.body],
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 488, in visit
    return visit_method(node, parent)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 1027, in visit_expr
    newnode.postinit(self.visit(node.value, newnode))
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 488, in visit
    return visit_method(node, parent)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 1236, in visit_attribute
    newnode.postinit(self.visit(node.value, newnode))
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 488, in visit
    return visit_method(node, parent)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[...snip...]

  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 1236, in visit_attribute
    newnode.postinit(self.visit(node.value, newnode))
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 488, in visit
    return visit_method(node, parent)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/rebuilder.py", line 1228, in visit_attribute
    newnode = nodes.Attribute(
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "astroid/astroid/nodes/node_classes.py", line 2913, in __init__
    super().__init__(
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Expected behavior

No crash

Version

9f8faeb3c0025

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Thank you ! It feels unlikely to be a problem during normal usage. And I don't have any idea how to fix it correctly. Preventing the crash would make astroid harder to débug and understand (bad chaotic inference result instead of a clean crash). If anyone is feeling clever..