diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 143cdd156..0b47f6f29 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1561,9 +1561,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vmm-sys-util"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.6.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7c40b8c9abb58cec48e0e39dfbe83ff1cfed17d89df28f0fa74f5e88021ae56b"
+checksum = "183d25b56a61a6f518ef464ac578e790f04added34dfaab59a453d8a03cb7bd0"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 1.2.1",
  "libc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 69fc3dbd0..81f32350b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ virtio-bindings = { version = "0.1", features = ["virtio-v5_0_0"]}
 vmm = { path = "vmm" }
 vm-device = { path = "vm-device" }
 vm-memory = "0.2.1"
-vmm-sys-util = "0.6.0"
+vmm-sys-util = "0.6.1"
 vm-virtio = { path = "vm-virtio" }
 vhost_rs = { git = "https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/vhost", branch = "dragonball", package = "vhost", features = ["vhost-user-slave"] }