create: do not try to read parent dir of recursion root, fixes #7746

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/src/borg/archiver.py b/src/borg/archiver.py
index 024f2a5ac..ba962dcf8 100644
--- a/src/borg/archiver.py
+++ b/src/borg/archiver.py
@@ -590,31 +590,20 @@ class Archiver:
                         self.print_file_status(status, path)
                         continue
                     path = os.path.normpath(path)
-                    parent_dir = os.path.dirname(path) or '.'
-                    name = os.path.basename(path)
                     try:
-                        # note: for path == '/':  name == '' and parent_dir == '/'.
-                        # the empty name will trigger a fall-back to path-based processing in os_stat and os_open.
-                        with OsOpen(path=parent_dir, flags=flags_root, noatime=True, op='open_root') as parent_fd:
-                            try:
-                                st = os_stat(path=path, parent_fd=parent_fd, name=name, follow_symlinks=False)
-                            except OSError as e:
-                                self.print_warning('%s: %s', path, e)
-                                continue
-                            if args.one_file_system:
-                                restrict_dev = st.st_dev
-                            else:
-                                restrict_dev = None
-                            self._rec_walk(path=path, parent_fd=parent_fd, name=name,
-                                           fso=fso, cache=cache, matcher=matcher,
-                                           exclude_caches=args.exclude_caches, exclude_if_present=args.exclude_if_present,
-                                           keep_exclude_tags=args.keep_exclude_tags, skip_inodes=skip_inodes,
-                                           restrict_dev=restrict_dev, read_special=args.read_special, dry_run=dry_run)
-                            # if we get back here, we've finished recursing into <path>,
-                            # we do not ever want to get back in there (even if path is given twice as recursion root)
-                            skip_inodes.add((st.st_ino, st.st_dev))
+                        with backup_io('stat'):
+                            st = os_stat(path=path, parent_fd=None, name=None, follow_symlinks=False)
+                        restrict_dev = st.st_dev if args.one_file_system else None
+                        self._rec_walk(path=path, parent_fd=None, name=None,
+                                       fso=fso, cache=cache, matcher=matcher,
+                                       exclude_caches=args.exclude_caches, exclude_if_present=args.exclude_if_present,
+                                       keep_exclude_tags=args.keep_exclude_tags, skip_inodes=skip_inodes,
+                                       restrict_dev=restrict_dev, read_special=args.read_special, dry_run=dry_run)
+                        # if we get back here, we've finished recursing into <path>,
+                        # we do not ever want to get back in there (even if path is given twice as recursion root)
+                        skip_inodes.add((st.st_ino, st.st_dev))
                     except (BackupOSError, BackupError) as e:
-                        # this comes from OsOpen, self._rec_walk has own exception handler
+                        # this comes from os.stat, self._rec_walk has own exception handler
                         self.print_warning('%s: %s', path, e)
                         continue
             if not dry_run: