diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-2668 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-2668
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..94a661c05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-2668
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Bugfix: Don't abort the stats command when data blobs are missing
+
+Runing the stats command in the blobs-per-file mode on a repository with
+missing data blobs previously resulted in a crash.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2668
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
index e8d5d61b7..6587f8382 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ func statsWalkSnapshot(ctx context.Context, snapshot *restic.Snapshot, repo rest
 }
 
 func statsWalkTree(repo restic.Repository, stats *statsContainer) walker.WalkFunc {
-	return func(_ restic.ID, npath string, node *restic.Node, nodeErr error) (bool, error) {
+	return func(parentTreeID restic.ID, npath string, node *restic.Node, nodeErr error) (bool, error) {
 		if nodeErr != nil {
 			return true, nodeErr
 		}
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ func statsWalkTree(repo restic.Repository, stats *statsContainer) walker.WalkFun
 							// is always a data blob since we're accessing it via a file's Content array
 							blobSize, found := repo.LookupBlobSize(blobID, restic.DataBlob)
 							if !found {
-								return true, fmt.Errorf("blob %s not found for tree %s", blobID, *node.Subtree)
+								return true, fmt.Errorf("blob %s not found for tree %s", blobID, parentTreeID)
 							}
 
 							// count the blob's size, then add this blob by this