diff --git a/backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c b/backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c
index 49cc3d749d..67e7b212e3 100644
--- a/backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c
+++ b/backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ static int tpm_emulator_prepare_data_fd(TPMEmulator *tpm_emu)
     Error *err = NULL;
     int fds[2] = { -1, -1 };
 
-    if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds) < 0) {
+    if (qemu_socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds) < 0) {
         error_report("tpm-emulator: Failed to create socketpair");
         return -1;
     }
diff --git a/tests/qtest/dbus-display-test.c b/tests/qtest/dbus-display-test.c
index cb1b62d1d1..fef025ac6f 100644
--- a/tests/qtest/dbus-display-test.c
+++ b/tests/qtest/dbus-display-test.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "qemu/dbus.h"
+#include "qemu/sockets.h"
 #include <gio/gio.h>
 #include <gio/gunixfdlist.h>
 #include "libqtest.h"
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ test_setup(QTestState **qts, GDBusConnection **conn)
 
     *qts = qtest_init("-display dbus,p2p=yes -name dbus-test");
 
-    g_assert_cmpint(socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, pair), ==, 0);
+    g_assert_cmpint(qemu_socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, pair), ==, 0);
 
     qtest_qmp_add_client(*qts, "@dbus-display", pair[1]);
 
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ test_dbus_display_console(void)
 
     test_setup(&qts, &conn);
 
-    g_assert_cmpint(socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, pair), ==, 0);
+    g_assert_cmpint(qemu_socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, pair), ==, 0);
     fd_list = g_unix_fd_list_new();
     idx = g_unix_fd_list_append(fd_list, pair[1], NULL);
 
diff --git a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
index dbde726adf..1dd32c9506 100644
--- a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
+++ b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ static void *test_migrate_fd_start_hook(QTestState *from,
     int pair[2];
 
     /* Create two connected sockets for migration */
-    ret = socketpair(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, pair);
+    ret = qemu_socketpair(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, pair);
     g_assert_cmpint(ret, ==, 0);
 
     /* Send the 1st socket to the target */
diff --git a/tests/unit/test-crypto-tlssession.c b/tests/unit/test-crypto-tlssession.c
index 615a1344b4..b12e7b6879 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test-crypto-tlssession.c
+++ b/tests/unit/test-crypto-tlssession.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static void test_crypto_tls_session_psk(void)
     int ret;
 
     /* We'll use this for our fake client-server connection */
-    ret = socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, channel);
+    ret = qemu_socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, channel);
     g_assert(ret == 0);
 
     /*
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static void test_crypto_tls_session_x509(const void *opaque)
     int ret;
 
     /* We'll use this for our fake client-server connection */
-    ret = socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, channel);
+    ret = qemu_socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, channel);
     g_assert(ret == 0);
 
     /*
diff --git a/tests/unit/test-io-channel-tls.c b/tests/unit/test-io-channel-tls.c
index cc39247556..e036ac5df4 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test-io-channel-tls.c
+++ b/tests/unit/test-io-channel-tls.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static void test_io_channel_tls(const void *opaque)
     GMainContext *mainloop;
 
     /* We'll use this for our fake client-server connection */
-    g_assert(socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, channel) == 0);
+    g_assert(qemu_socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, channel) == 0);
 
 #define CLIENT_CERT_DIR "tests/test-io-channel-tls-client/"
 #define SERVER_CERT_DIR "tests/test-io-channel-tls-server/"