diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/TempLocationManager.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/TempLocationManager.java
index abf404307ab..7aaa5a2063e 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/TempLocationManager.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/TempLocationManager.java
@@ -465,7 +465,9 @@ private void createTempDir(Path tempDir) {
       // we will find the first offender not having the expected permissions and fail the check
       if (isPosixFs) {
         // take the first subfolder below the base temp dir
-        Path root = baseTempDir.resolve(baseTempDir.relativize(tempDir).getRoot());
+        // we can wave the checks for tempDir being a subdir of baseTempDir because that's how it is
+        // created
+        Path root = baseTempDir.resolve(baseTempDir.relativize(tempDir).getName(0));
         try {
           AtomicReference<Path> failed = new AtomicReference<>();
           Files.walkFileTree(
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/test/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/TempLocationManagerTest.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/test/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/TempLocationManagerTest.java
index 21043fb6d5d..38f063200c8 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/test/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/TempLocationManagerTest.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/test/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/TempLocationManagerTest.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 import java.util.UUID;
 import java.util.concurrent.Phaser;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
-import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -80,8 +79,7 @@ void testFromConfigNotWritable() throws Exception {
     Properties props = new Properties();
     props.put(ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_TEMP_DIR, myDir.toString());
     ConfigProvider configProvider = ConfigProvider.withPropertiesOverride(props);
-    TempLocationManager tempLocationManager = new TempLocationManager(configProvider);
-    assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class, tempLocationManager::getTempDir);
+    assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class, () -> new TempLocationManager(configProvider));
   }
 
   @ParameterizedTest
@@ -246,29 +244,6 @@ public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs)
     assertEquals(shouldSucceed, rslt);
   }
 
-  @Test
-  void testShortCircuit() throws Exception {
-    Path baseDir =
-        Files.createTempDirectory(
-            "ddprof-test-",
-            PosixFilePermissions.asFileAttribute(PosixFilePermissions.fromString("rwx------")));
-    AtomicBoolean executed = new AtomicBoolean();
-    TempLocationManager.CleanupHook hook =
-        new TempLocationManager.CleanupHook() {
-          @Override
-          public void onCleanupStart(boolean selfCleanup, long timeout, TimeUnit unit) {
-            executed.set(true);
-          }
-        };
-    TempLocationManager instance = instance(baseDir, false, hook);
-
-    instance.createDirStructure();
-
-    boolean ret = instance.cleanup(false);
-    assertTrue(ret);
-    assertFalse(executed.get());
-  }
-
   private static Stream<Arguments> timeoutTestArguments() {
     List<Arguments> argumentsList = new ArrayList<>();
     for (boolean selfCleanup : new boolean[] {true, false}) {