diff --git a/init/devices.cpp b/init/devices.cpp
index d29ffd604..7c234924b 100644
--- a/init/devices.cpp
+++ b/init/devices.cpp
@@ -568,6 +568,8 @@ void DeviceHandler::HandleUevent(const Uevent& uevent) {
         return;
     } else if (uevent.subsystem == "misc" && StartsWith(uevent.device_name, "dm-user/")) {
         devpath = "/dev/dm-user/" + uevent.device_name.substr(8);
+    } else if (uevent.subsystem == "misc" && uevent.device_name == "vfio/vfio") {
+        devpath = "/dev/" + uevent.device_name;
     } else {
         devpath = "/dev/" + Basename(uevent.path);
     }
diff --git a/rootdir/ueventd.rc b/rootdir/ueventd.rc
index 0b7ffb8ea..60dcc2a95 100644
--- a/rootdir/ueventd.rc
+++ b/rootdir/ueventd.rc
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ subsystem sound
 subsystem dma_heap
    devname uevent_devpath
    dirname /dev/dma_heap
+
+subsystem vfio
+    devname uevent_devpath
+    dirname /dev/vfio
+
 # ueventd can only set permissions on device nodes and their associated
 # sysfs attributes, not on arbitrary paths.
 #
@@ -43,6 +48,7 @@ subsystem dma_heap
 /dev/binder               0666   root       root
 /dev/hwbinder             0666   root       root
 /dev/vndbinder            0666   root       root
+/dev/vfio/*               0666   root       root
 
 /dev/pmsg0                0222   root       log
 /dev/dma_heap/system      0444   system     system