"File system loop found" upon `cargo build`

[winterqt]

Problem

When running cargo build, an error is thrown:

Caused by:
  failed to determine the most recently modified file in /path/to/package

Caused by:
  failed to determine list of files in /path/to/package

Caused by:
  File system loop found: /path/to/package/node/tools/node_modules/eslint/node_modules/eslint points to an ancestor /path/to/package/node/tools/node_modules/eslint

Steps

1. Clone nodejs/node to a package directory
2. Run cargo build

Possible Solution(s)

No response

Notes

This does not occur on Cargo v1.56.0 (I'm experiencing this on 3787309).

Version

cargo 1.59.0
release: 1.59.0
host: aarch64-apple-darwin
libgit2: 1.3.0 (sys:0.13.25 vendored)
libcurl: 7.80.0-DEV (sys:0.4.51+curl-7.80.0 vendored ssl:SecureTransport)
os: Mac OS 12.1.0 [64-bit]

[weihanglo]

This was introduced by the patch #10188

Here is a reproducible script:

mkdir eloop && cd eloop
cargo init . --vcs none
mkdir -p a/b/c
ln -s "$PWD/a/b" a/b/c/d

Then run cargo doc, you will see a similar error:

[
    "/Users/me/eloop/Cargo.lock",
    "/Users/me/eloop/Cargo.toml",
    "/Users/me/eloop/_build.rs",
    "/Users/me/eloop/a/b/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e/c/e",
    "/Users/me/eloop/src/main.rs",
],

Why cargo before #10188 can succeed to build is that cargo ignores bad symlinks when checking it's mtime. Unfortunately #10188 proactively detects symlink loop and aborts when got one. I guess a revert might be fine.