diff --git a/cinder/templates/deployment-volume.yaml b/cinder/templates/deployment-volume.yaml
index 49537a20d9..d1cd918866 100644
--- a/cinder/templates/deployment-volume.yaml
+++ b/cinder/templates/deployment-volume.yaml
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ spec:
           volumeMounts:
             - name: pod-tmp
               mountPath: /tmp
+            - name: pod-var-cinder
+              mountPath: {{ .Values.conf.cinder.DEFAULT.state_path }}
             - name: cinder-bin
               mountPath: /tmp/cinder-volume.sh
               subPath: cinder-volume.sh
@@ -293,6 +295,8 @@ spec:
       volumes:
         - name: pod-tmp
           emptyDir: {}
+        - name: pod-var-cinder
+          emptyDir: {}
         - name: cinder-bin
           configMap:
             name: cinder-bin
diff --git a/cinder/values.yaml b/cinder/values.yaml
index 757cd7a0e6..744d43913d 100644
--- a/cinder/values.yaml
+++ b/cinder/values.yaml
@@ -835,6 +835,7 @@ conf:
         app_name: cinder-volume
   cinder:
     DEFAULT:
+      state_path: /var/lib/cinder
       volume_usage_audit_period: hour
       resource_query_filters_file: /etc/cinder/resource_filters.json
       log_config_append: /etc/cinder/logging.conf
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/cinder-f177532ecd78dcec.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/cinder-f177532ecd78dcec.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d74beb9c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/cinder-f177532ecd78dcec.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Some backends of cinder will write some temp data into the state_path
+    so it should be something available to be written to for the pod.
+...