diff --git a/hw/display/vhost-user-gpu.c b/hw/display/vhost-user-gpu.c
index 3340ef9e5f..19c0e20103 100644
--- a/hw/display/vhost-user-gpu.c
+++ b/hw/display/vhost-user-gpu.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "qemu/sockets.h"
 #include "hw/qdev-properties.h"
 #include "hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h"
 #include "chardev/char-fe.h"
@@ -375,7 +376,7 @@ vhost_user_gpu_do_set_socket(VhostUserGPU *g, Error **errp)
     Chardev *chr;
     int sv[2];
 
-    if (socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sv) == -1) {
+    if (qemu_socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sv) == -1) {
         error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "socketpair() failed");
         return false;
     }
diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
index bd24741be8..70748e61e0 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
@@ -1726,7 +1726,7 @@ static int vhost_setup_slave_channel(struct vhost_dev *dev)
         return 0;
     }
 
-    if (socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sv) == -1) {
+    if (qemu_socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sv) == -1) {
         int saved_errno = errno;
         error_report("socketpair() failed");
         return -saved_errno;