The virFileMakePathWithMode() which is our recursive version of mkdir() fails, it simply just returns a negative value with errno set. No error is reported (as compared to virFileTouch() for instance). Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c index 0e2252f6cf..48bf5ae559 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c @@ -14643,8 +14643,12 @@ qemuDomainCreateDeviceRecursive(const char *device, * proper owner and mode. Bind mount only after that. */ } else if (isDir) { if (create && - virFileMakePathWithMode(devicePath, sb.st_mode) < 0) + virFileMakePathWithMode(devicePath, sb.st_mode) < 0) { + virReportSystemError(errno, + _("Unable to make dir %s"), + devicePath); goto cleanup; + } } else { virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, _("unsupported device type %s 0%o"), -- 2.24.1