diff --git a/bzip2-handle_pipe_input_with-f_option.patch b/bzip2-handle_pipe_input_with-f_option.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee997ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bzip2-handle_pipe_input_with-f_option.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Index: bzip2-1.0.6/bzip2.c
+===================================================================
+--- bzip2-1.0.6.orig/bzip2.c	2010-09-11 01:04:53.000000000 +0200
++++ bzip2-1.0.6/bzip2.c	2014-07-31 16:23:22.366495659 +0200
+@@ -504,6 +504,11 @@ Bool uncompressStream ( FILE *zStream, F
+    trycat: 
+    if (forceOverwrite) {
+       rewind(zStream);
++      if (errno == EBADF || errno == ESPIPE) {
++         /* zStream is not seekable, probably a pipe,
++            so we print what we already have in the obuf buffer */
++         fwrite ( obuf, sizeof(UChar), nread, stream );
++      }
+       while (True) {
+       	 if (myfeof(zStream)) break;
+       	 nread = fread ( obuf, sizeof(UChar), 5000, zStream );
+Index: bzip2-1.0.6/bzlib.c
+===================================================================
+--- bzip2-1.0.6.orig/bzlib.c	2014-07-31 14:50:19.492469544 +0200
++++ bzip2-1.0.6/bzlib.c	2014-07-31 16:25:28.271012325 +0200
+@@ -1198,6 +1198,17 @@ int BZ_API(BZ2_bzRead)
+ 
+       ret = BZ2_bzDecompress ( &(bzf->strm) );
+ 
++      /* Unknown format. If the -f option was specified,
++         we want to write out the input data as it is.
++         However, as we can't rewind the stream in pipe,
++         we have to copy to the output buf the data
++         which were already read */
++      if (ret == BZ_DATA_ERROR_MAGIC) {
++         strncpy(buf, bzf->buf, n);
++         BZ_SETERR(BZ_DATA_ERROR_MAGIC);
++         return n;
++      }
++
+       if (ret != BZ_OK && ret != BZ_STREAM_END)
+          { BZ_SETERR(ret); return 0; };
+ 
diff --git a/bzip2.changes b/bzip2.changes
index d7191d0..5b29ea1 100644
--- a/bzip2.changes
+++ b/bzip2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Aug  5 10:39:56 UTC 2014 - vcizek@suse.com
+
+- handle pipe input with the -f option (bnc#884004)
+  * added bzip2-handle_pipe_input_with-f_option.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul 31 12:39:28 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/bzip2.spec b/bzip2.spec
index 4e4258c..a1554a9 100644
--- a/bzip2.spec
+++ b/bzip2.spec
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Patch3:         bzip2-faster.patch
 Patch5:         bzip2-unsafe_strcpy.patch
 Patch6:         bzip2-point-to-doc-pkg.patch
 Patch7:         bzip2-ocloexec.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-SUSE bzip2-handle_pipe_input_with-f_option.patch
+Patch8:         bzip2-handle_pipe_input_with-f_option.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  autoconf >= 2.57
 BuildRequires:  libtool
@@ -83,6 +85,7 @@ The bzip2 runtime library development files.
 %patch5
 %patch6 -p1
 %patch7
+%patch8 -p1
 
 %build
 profile_bzip2()