mkdtemp() will try to create a current directory in the working directory of the process. In this case it's trying to create it in /. This is a problem when the process doesn't have write access there.
This patch changes the template string and prepends "/tmp" which is typically writable. Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfreim...@redhat.com> --- tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c index 0b229ebd57..f79bcce0d7 100644 --- a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c +++ b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c @@ -2393,7 +2393,7 @@ static void setup_wait_parent_capabilities(void) static void setup_namespaces(struct lo_data *lo, struct fuse_session *se) { pid_t child; - char template[] = "virtiofsd-XXXXXX"; + char template[] = "/tmp/virtiofsd-XXXXXX"; char *tmpdir; /* -- 2.26.2