unix_listen_saddr() replaces empty @path by unique value. It obtains the value by creating and deleting a unique temporary file with mkstemp(). This is racy, as the comment explains. It's also entirely undocumented as far as I can tell. Goes back to commit d247d25f18 "sockets: helper functions for qemu (Gerd Hoffman)", v0.10.0.
Since abstract socket addresses have no connection with filesystem pathnames, making them up with mkstemp() seems inappropriate. Bypass the replacement of empty @path. Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> --- util/qemu-sockets.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/util/qemu-sockets.c b/util/qemu-sockets.c index a578c434c2..671717499f 100644 --- a/util/qemu-sockets.c +++ b/util/qemu-sockets.c @@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ static int unix_listen_saddr(UnixSocketAddress *saddr, return -1; } - if (saddr->path && saddr->path[0]) { + if (saddr->path[0] || saddr->abstract) { path = saddr->path; } else { const char *tmpdir = getenv("TMPDIR"); -- 2.26.2