diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index aefc7a4f15..75b4b99dcf 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -8403,7 +8403,7 @@ virDomainDiskSourceNetworkParse(xmlNodePtr node,
 
         src->volume = src->path;
 
-        if (VIR_STRDUP(src->path, tmp) < 0)
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(src->path, tmp + 1) < 0)
             goto cleanup;
 
         tmp[0] = '\0';
@@ -22167,7 +22167,7 @@ virDomainDiskSourceFormatNetwork(virBufferPtr attrBuf,
                       virStorageNetProtocolTypeToString(src->protocol));
 
     if (src->volume) {
-        if (virAsprintf(&path, "%s%s", src->volume, src->path) < 0)
+        if (virAsprintf(&path, "%s/%s", src->volume, src->path) < 0)
             return -1;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_block.c b/src/qemu/qemu_block.c
index 77e48bed83..408817dfc6 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_block.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_block.c
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ qemuBlockStorageSourceGetURI(virStorageSourcePtr src)
 
     if (src->path) {
         if (src->volume) {
-            if (virAsprintf(&uri->path, "/%s%s",
+            if (virAsprintf(&uri->path, "/%s/%s",
                             src->volume, src->path) < 0)
                 goto cleanup;
         } else {
diff --git a/src/util/virstoragefile.c b/src/util/virstoragefile.c
index 3a2d2aa056..d48358abb0 100644
--- a/src/util/virstoragefile.c
+++ b/src/util/virstoragefile.c
@@ -2450,7 +2450,7 @@ virStorageSourceParseBackingURI(virStorageSourcePtr src,
 
         src->volume = src->path;
 
-        if (VIR_STRDUP(src->path, tmp) < 0)
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(src->path, tmp + 1) < 0)
             goto cleanup;
 
         tmp[0] = '\0';
@@ -2931,7 +2931,7 @@ virStorageSourceParseBackingJSONGluster(virStorageSourcePtr src,
     src->protocol = VIR_STORAGE_NET_PROTOCOL_GLUSTER;
 
     if (VIR_STRDUP(src->volume, volume) < 0 ||
-        virAsprintf(&src->path, "/%s", path) < 0)
+        VIR_STRDUP(src->path, path) < 0)
         return -1;
 
     nservers = virJSONValueArraySize(server);
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-gluster.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-gluster.args
index 9906169559..6cfbe36feb 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-gluster.args
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-gluster.args
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ id=virtio-disk0 \
 format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1' \
 -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,\
 id=virtio-disk1 \
--drive file.driver=gluster,file.volume=Volume3,file.path=/Image.qcow2,\
+-drive file.driver=gluster,file.volume=Volume3,file.path=Image.qcow2,\
 file.server.0.type=tcp,file.server.0.host=example.org,file.server.0.port=6000,\
 file.server.1.type=tcp,file.server.1.host=example.org,file.server.1.port=24007,\
 file.server.2.type=unix,file.server.2.socket=/path/to/sock,file.debug=4,\