diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibCore/DirIterator.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibCore/DirIterator.cpp
index 84fe5a57770..7e4acb83988 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibCore/DirIterator.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibCore/DirIterator.cpp
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ bool DirIterator::advance_next()
         if constexpr (dirent_has_d_type) {
             // dirent structures from readdir aren't guaranteed to contain valid file types,
             // as it is possible that the underlying filesystem doesn't keep track of those.
-            if (m_next->type == DirectoryEntry::Type::Unknown) {
+            // However, if we were requested to not do stat on the entries of this directory,
+            // the calling code will be given the raw unknown type.
+            if ((m_flags & Flags::NoStat) == 0 && m_next->type == DirectoryEntry::Type::Unknown) {
                 struct stat statbuf;
                 if (fstatat(dirfd(m_dir), de->d_name, &statbuf, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) < 0) {
                     m_error = Error::from_errno(errno);
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibCore/DirIterator.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibCore/DirIterator.h
index bf9561e359b..70c5fd41d4b 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibCore/DirIterator.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibCore/DirIterator.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ public:
         NoFlags = 0x0,
         SkipDots = 0x1,
         SkipParentAndBaseDir = 0x2,
+        NoStat = 0x4,
     };
 
     explicit DirIterator(ByteString path, Flags = Flags::NoFlags);