diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/default.nix
index 9a97b4259b2..f74ac9c41ee 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/default.nix
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
 
+  patches = [ ./few-more-uapi-fixes.patch ];
+
   dontDisableStatic = true;
   dontStrip = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/few-more-uapi-fixes.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/few-more-uapi-fixes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f84ca2c5aec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/few-more-uapi-fixes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2018/01/06/3
+
+Date: Sat,  6 Jan 2018 23:32:52 +0100
+From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
+To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
+Cc: felix.janda@...teo.de,
+	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
+Subject: [PATCH v2] Add additional uapi guards for Linux kernel header files
+
+With Linux kernel 4.16 it will be possible to guard more parts of the
+Linux header files from a libc. Make use of this in musl to guard all
+the structures and other definitions from the Linux header files which
+are also defined by the header files provided by musl. This will make
+musl compile with the unmodified Linux kernel user space headers.
+
+This extends the definitions done in commit 04983f227238 ("make
+netinet/in.h suppress clashing definitions from kernel headers")
+
+The needed patches were recently accepted into the netdev tree and will be integrated in Linux 4.16:
+https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/854342/
+https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/855293/
+---
+ include/net/if.h           | 7 +++++++
+ include/netinet/if_ether.h | 1 +
+ include/sys/xattr.h        | 2 ++
+ 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/include/net/if.h b/include/net/if.h
+index 2f2fcc10..0ee48cd7 100644
+--- a/include/net/if.h
++++ b/include/net/if.h
+@@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ struct ifconf {
+ #define ifc_req		ifc_ifcu.ifcu_req
+ #define _IOT_ifconf _IOT(_IOTS(struct ifconf),1,0,0,0,0)
+ 
++#define __UAPI_DEF_IF_IFCONF					0
++#define __UAPI_DEF_IF_IFMAP					0
++#define __UAPI_DEF_IF_IFNAMSIZ					0
++#define __UAPI_DEF_IF_IFREQ					0
++#define __UAPI_DEF_IF_NET_DEVICE_FLAGS				0
++#define __UAPI_DEF_IF_NET_DEVICE_FLAGS_LOWER_UP_DORMANT_ECHO	0
++
+ #endif
+ 
+ #ifdef __cplusplus
+diff --git a/include/netinet/if_ether.h b/include/netinet/if_ether.h
+index d9a131aa..c2c6e944 100644
+--- a/include/netinet/if_ether.h
++++ b/include/netinet/if_ether.h
+@@ -133,5 +133,6 @@ do { \
+ 	(enaddr)[5] = ((uint8_t *)ipaddr)[3]; \
+ } while(0)
+ 
++#define __UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR	0
+ 
+ #endif
+diff --git a/include/sys/xattr.h b/include/sys/xattr.h
+index 6479fcc6..52e3dd89 100644
+--- a/include/sys/xattr.h
++++ b/include/sys/xattr.h
+@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ int removexattr(const char *, const char *);
+ int lremovexattr(const char *, const char *);
+ int fremovexattr(int, const char *);
+ 
++#define __UAPI_DEF_XATTR	0
++
+ #ifdef __cplusplus
+ }
+ #endif
+-- 
+2.11.0