This may be related to RHEL-103753 but unsure at this point.

When login in as root in cockpit then going to "File Browser", /root directory, starting to strace cockpit-bridge leads to consuming GBs of memory in a few seconds.
See screenshots.

Reproducer

It's very easy to reproduce using "File browser", as root.

1. Login in cockpit as root and go to File Browser (shows /root)
2. From a shell outside of cockpit or through "Terminal", start stracing cockpit-bridge

   # strace -fttTvyy -s 256 -o cockpit-bridge.strace -p $(pgrep cockpit-bridge)

Result

100% CPU consumption (50% for cockpit-bridge and 50% for strace) and huge amount of memory being consumed, growing rapidly.