diff --git a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
index 57498ca3cf..6abf21ac30 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ libzfs_run_process_impl(const char *path, char *argv[], char *env[], int flags,
 	if (lines != NULL && pipe2(link, O_NONBLOCK | O_CLOEXEC) == -1)
 		return (-EPIPE);
 
-	pid = vfork();
+	pid = fork();
 	if (pid == 0) {
 		/* Child process */
 		devnull_fd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
diff --git a/tests/zfs-tests/cmd/xattrtest/xattrtest.c b/tests/zfs-tests/cmd/xattrtest/xattrtest.c
index 8c4cb88955..0b68126c03 100644
--- a/tests/zfs-tests/cmd/xattrtest/xattrtest.c
+++ b/tests/zfs-tests/cmd/xattrtest/xattrtest.c
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ run_process(const char *path, char *argv[])
 	pid_t pid;
 	int rc, devnull_fd;
 
-	pid = vfork();
+	pid = fork();
 	if (pid == 0) {
 		devnull_fd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY);