diff --git a/src/util/virsocketaddr.c b/src/util/virsocketaddr.c
index 80f75fb9cd34859c59fee6b481248877a22ca516..6b52a3d58cfa8bafebd0bb37a85a587e13fde295 100644
--- a/src/util/virsocketaddr.c
+++ b/src/util/virsocketaddr.c
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 #include "virsocketaddr.h"
 #include "virerror.h"
 #include "virstring.h"
-#include "viralloc.h"
 #include "virbuffer.h"
 
 #include <netdb.h>
diff --git a/src/util/virsocketaddr.h b/src/util/virsocketaddr.h
index 06cfd33d72f28fd572653332e56666a8d82339f7..66f599869c827303d6d970a7afa74087ee0aa53d 100644
--- a/src/util/virsocketaddr.h
+++ b/src/util/virsocketaddr.h
@@ -24,14 +24,15 @@
 #ifndef __VIR_SOCKETADDR_H__
 # define __VIR_SOCKETADDR_H__
 
-# include "internal.h"
-
 # include <netinet/in.h>
 # include <sys/socket.h>
 # ifdef HAVE_SYS_UN_H
 #  include <sys/un.h>
 # endif
 
+# include "internal.h"
+# include "viralloc.h"
+
 /* On architectures which lack these limits, define them (ie. Cygwin).
  * Note that the libvirt code should be robust enough to handle the
  * case where actual value is longer than these limits (eg. by setting
@@ -164,4 +165,6 @@ int virSocketAddrPTRDomain(const virSocketAddr *addr,
 
 void virSocketAddrFree(virSocketAddrPtr addr);
 
+VIR_DEFINE_AUTOPTR_FUNC(virSocketAddr, virSocketAddrFree)
+
 #endif /* __VIR_SOCKETADDR_H__ */