diff --git a/alsa-lib-sys-types.patch b/alsa-lib-sys-types.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ca935d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alsa-lib-sys-types.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From 3e7dc283ed2d3ed2341f0657811c588f4dbcba6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
+Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:06:11 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Add sys/types.h to include list
+
+This is needed by snd_pcm_format_silence* functions which
+return u_int*_t. It was discovered while trying to compile ALSA
+programs with eglibc 2.17.
+
+Credits to Richard Shaw, Gary Buhrmaster, Matthieu Baerts and
+ Adam Conrad for this fix.
+
+BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109298
+BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885306
+Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
+Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
+---
+ include/asoundlib-head.h | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/include/asoundlib-head.h b/include/asoundlib-head.h
+index 20c8a68..6edbab0 100644
+--- a/include/asoundlib-head.h
++++ b/include/asoundlib-head.h
+@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
++#include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <fcntl.h>
+ #include <assert.h>
+-- 
+1.7.11.4
+
diff --git a/alsa-lib.spec b/alsa-lib.spec
index ff7231f..d1627f7 100644
--- a/alsa-lib.spec
+++ b/alsa-lib.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Summary:  The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library
 Name:     alsa-lib
 Version:  1.0.26
-Release:  3%{?prever_dot}%{?dist}
+Release:  4%{?prever_dot}%{?dist}
 License:  LGPLv2+
 Group:    System Environment/Libraries
 URL:      http://www.alsa-project.org/
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Source12: modprobe-dist-oss.conf
 Patch0:   alsa-lib-1.0.24-config.patch
 Patch2:   alsa-lib-1.0.14-glibc-open.patch
 Patch4:   alsa-lib-1.0.16-no-dox-date.patch
+Patch5:   alsa-lib-sys-types.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  doxygen
 Requires(post): /sbin/ldconfig, coreutils
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ against the ALSA libraries and interfaces.
 %patch0 -p1 -b .config
 %patch2 -p1 -b .glibc-open
 %patch4 -p1 -b .no-dox-date
+%patch5 -p1 -b .sys-types
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-aload --with-plugindir=%{_libdir}/alsa-lib --disable-alisp
@@ -107,6 +109,9 @@ find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/alsa.m4
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Apr 03 2013 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com> - 1.0.26-4
+- Add upstream patch to explicitly include sys/types.h
+
 * Wed Feb 13 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.26-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild