[Bug] Circular reference in series.data causes stack overflow thus chart fails to show

[li6in9muyou]

Version

5.5.0

Link to Minimal Reproduction

https://echarts.apache.org/examples/zh/editor.html?c=sunburst-simple&code=MYewdgzgLgBATiEsC8MDeAoGNgAsCWANgCZwCmYAXDANoC6GAvgNwaiSwCGMqm2ADp3Jgo1BEiatxUAHR4ipCjP4BXCLgAUnAJSsMIflHzge6LDAhk4-MhGp9sMKAE9-ZagHIIKsACMVcNAeADTm2MScUJzUNNIM2IySQA

Steps to Reproduce

1. paste the follow code in to echarts official example editor
2. open dev tool, read latest exception

const root = {
  name: "root",
  value: 20,
  children: []
};
const a = {
  name: "a",
  value: 10,
  parent: root
};
root.children.push(a);

option = {
  series: {
    type: 'sunburst',
    data: [root]
  }
};

Current Behavior

In step 2, a RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded is thrown and the chart is not displayed.

Expected Behavior

Chart is displayed properly.

Environment

- OS: Win 10
- Browser: Chrome 122.0.6261.112
- Framework: vanillajs

Any additional comments?

This issues is repeated in zrender issue 1066. This stack overflow is caused by a clone utility that does not guard against circular reference. And this clone process is initiated by OptionManager here. According to comments, cloneing here serves the purpose of avoiding modifying the user supplied option argument. In that regard, I suppose it's more robust to guard against circular references when cloneing.

Circular reference is perfectly valid and reasonable in many cases. For example, series-sunburst accepts tree-like series.data and a user may store a parent link in every tree node so that click handlers on this chart can construct a path from node to tree root easily.