diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 37a1d7ceb..2a69d5c14 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1686,9 +1686,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vmm-sys-util"
-version = "0.6.1"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "183d25b56a61a6f518ef464ac578e790f04added34dfaab59a453d8a03cb7bd0"
+checksum = "d1cdd1d72e262bbfb014de65ada24c1ac50e10a2e3b1e8ec052df188c2ee5dfa"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 1.2.1",
  "libc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5d2f52d2c..4a512b002 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ thiserror = "1.0"
 vhost_user_block = { path = "vhost_user_block"}
 vhost_user_net = { path = "vhost_user_net"}
 vmm = { path = "vmm" }
-vmm-sys-util = "0.6.1"
+vmm-sys-util = "0.7.0"
 wait-timeout = "0.2.0"
 
 [build-dependencies]
diff --git a/vhost_user_fs/Cargo.toml b/vhost_user_fs/Cargo.toml
index ad4e0bfcc..958630ee4 100644
--- a/vhost_user_fs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vhost_user_fs/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ vhost_rs = { git = "https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost", branch = "master", packa
 vhost_user_backend = { path = "../vhost_user_backend"}
 vm-memory = "0.3.0"
 vm-virtio = { path = "../vm-virtio" }
-vmm-sys-util = "0.6.1"
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+vmm-sys-util = "0.7.0"
\ No newline at end of file