From ddbb998aed82c599886d31b3a48930042b623463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:07:10 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [7.1.x] Increase stacklevel to point at user's code

---
 changelog/9869.bugfix.rst | 2 ++
 src/_pytest/nodes.py      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog/9869.bugfix.rst

diff --git a/changelog/9869.bugfix.rst b/changelog/9869.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9761d7f161b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/9869.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Increase ``stacklevel`` for the ``NODE_CTOR_FSPATH_ARG`` deprecation to point to the
+user's code, not pytest.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/nodes.py b/src/_pytest/nodes.py
index e49c1b003e0..1a168043a4f 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/nodes.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/nodes.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def _imply_path(
             NODE_CTOR_FSPATH_ARG.format(
                 node_type_name=node_type.__name__,
             ),
-            stacklevel=3,
+            stacklevel=6,
         )
     if path is not None:
         if fspath is not None: