diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index ae2924c..20db3d9 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@
 #ifdef linux
         if (a->sun_path[0] == 0) {  /* Linux abstract namespace */
             addrlen -= offsetof(struct sockaddr_un, sun_path);
-            return PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(a->sun_path, addrlen);
+            return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(a->sun_path, addrlen);
         }
         else
 #endif /* linux */