VMware guest system hang due to frozen filesystems, vmtoolsd blocked opening a fuse filesystem mount point

Issue

• VMware VM / guest system hang with frozen filesystems, vmtoolsd running and has the following backtrace

crash> foreach vmtoolsd bt
PID: 1068   TASK: ffff8802388e2080  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "vmtoolsd"
 #0 [ffff880237f0da38] schedule at ffffffff81529990
 #1 [ffff880237f0db10] wait_answer_interruptible at ffffffffa01ba211 [fuse]
 #2 [ffff880237f0db80] __fuse_request_send at ffffffffa01ba42b [fuse]
 #3 [ffff880237f0dbf0] fuse_request_send at ffffffffa01ba512 [fuse]
 #4 [ffff880237f0dc00] fuse_do_getattr at ffffffffa01bdccc [fuse]
 #5 [ffff880237f0dce0] fuse_update_attributes at ffffffffa01bdefd [fuse]
 #6 [ffff880237f0dd10] fuse_permission at ffffffffa01bf038 [fuse]
 #7 [ffff880237f0dd60] inode_permission at ffffffff8119bd4e
 #8 [ffff880237f0dd80] may_open at ffffffff8119bf80
 #9 [ffff880237f0ddb0] do_filp_open at ffffffff811a1047
#10 [ffff880237f0df20] do_sys_open at ffffffff8118ae17
#11 [ffff880237f0df70] sys_open at ffffffff8118af20
#12 [ffff880237f0df80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8100b072