diff --git a/libarchive-ppc64.patch b/libarchive-ppc64.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe811d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libarchive-ppc64.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Index: libarchive-3.0.4/libarchive/archive_read_disk_entry_from_file.c
+===================================================================
+--- libarchive-3.0.4.orig/libarchive/archive_read_disk_entry_from_file.c
++++ libarchive-3.0.4/libarchive/archive_read_disk_entry_from_file.c
+@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ archive_read_disk_entry_from_file(struct
+ 				fd = open(path, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
+ 		}
+ 		if (fd >= 0) {
+-			unsigned long stflags;
++			int stflags;
+ 			r = ioctl(fd, EXT2_IOC_GETFLAGS, &stflags);
+ 			if (r == 0 && stflags != 0)
+ 				archive_entry_set_fflags(entry, stflags, 0);
+Index: libarchive-3.0.4/libarchive/archive_read_disk_posix.c
+===================================================================
+--- libarchive-3.0.4.orig/libarchive/archive_read_disk_posix.c
++++ libarchive-3.0.4/libarchive/archive_read_disk_posix.c
+@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ next_entry(struct archive_read_disk *a,
+ #elif defined(EXT2_IOC_GETFLAGS) && defined(EXT2_NODUMP_FL) &&\
+       defined(HAVE_WORKING_EXT2_IOC_GETFLAGS)
+ 		if (S_ISREG(st->st_mode) || S_ISDIR(st->st_mode)) {
+-			unsigned long stflags;
++			int stflags;
+ 
+ 			t->entry_fd = open_on_current_dir(t,
+ 			    tree_current_access_path(t), O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
diff --git a/libarchive.changes b/libarchive.changes
index 10c9b9a..f291ca6 100644
--- a/libarchive.changes
+++ b/libarchive.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 23 08:30:05 UTC 2012 - dvaleev@suse.com
+
+- fix http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=277
+  test_option_b and test_option_nodump are failing on ppc64
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug  9 09:05:01 UTC 2012 - cfarrell@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libarchive.spec b/libarchive.spec
index 72ef874..07a08b2 100644
--- a/libarchive.spec
+++ b/libarchive.spec
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ Source0:        http://libarchive.googlecode.com/files/libarchive-%{version}.tar
 Source1:        baselibs.conf
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM libarchive-fix-checks.patch dimstar@opensuse.org -- Fix GCC 4.7 side effects. Taken from upstream.
 Patch0:         libarchive-fix-checks.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM libarchive-ppc64.patch dvaleev@suse.com -- fix tests failing on ppc64
+Patch1:         libarchive-ppc64.patch
 
 %description
 Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ This package contains the development files.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1
+%patch1 -p1
 
 %build
 %global optflags    %{optflags} -D_REENTRANT -pipe