Socket leak on each call to qemu_socket() On any host platform where SOCK_CLOEXEC is defined (Linux at least), a socket is leaked on each call to qemu_socket() AND the socket returned hasn't been created with the desired SOCK_CLOEXEC attribute. The qemu_socket routine is: Line 272 of util/osdep.c: /* * Opens a socket with FD_CLOEXEC set */ int qemu_socket(int domain, int type, int protocol) { int ret; #ifdef SOCK_CLOEXEC ret = socket(domain, type | SOCK_CLOEXEC, protocol); if (ret != -1 || errno != EINVAL) { return ret; } #endif ret = socket(domain, type, protocol); if (ret >= 0) { qemu_set_cloexec(ret); } return ret; }