diff --git a/open-vm-tools-linux-3.17.patch b/open-vm-tools-linux-3.17.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..af778a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open-vm-tools-linux-3.17.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Index: open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1770165/modules/linux/vmhgfs/page.c
+===================================================================
+--- open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1770165.orig/modules/linux/vmhgfs/page.c
++++ open-vm-tools-9.4.6-1770165/modules/linux/vmhgfs/page.c
+@@ -1385,7 +1385,9 @@ HgfsWbRequestWait(HgfsWbPage *req)  // I
+ #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 13)
+    return wait_on_bit(&req->wb_flags,
+                       PG_BUSY,
++#  if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 17, 0)
+                       HgfsWbRequestWaitUninterruptible,
++#  endif
+                       TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ #else
+    wait_event(req->wb_queue,
diff --git a/open-vm-tools.changes b/open-vm-tools.changes
index d20be92..0232536 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools.changes
+++ b/open-vm-tools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 12 10:04:48 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Add open-vm-tools-linux-3.17.patch: Fix build with Linux 3.17.0.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 10 16:01:56 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/open-vm-tools.spec b/open-vm-tools.spec
index 3e69287..f93e35a 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools.spec
+++ b/open-vm-tools.spec
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Patch5:         0005-Update-hgfs-file-operations-for-newer-kernels.patch
 Patch6:         0006-Fix-vmxnet-module-on-kernels-3.16.patch
 Patch7:         0007-Fix-vmhgfs-module-on-kernels-3.16.patch
 Patch8:         0008-Fix-segfault-in-vmhgfs.patch
+Patch10:        open-vm-tools-linux-3.17.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 # don't use pkgconfig(gtk+-2.0) so we can build on SLE
@@ -224,6 +225,7 @@ sed -i -e "s/\r//" README
 %patch6 -p2
 %patch7 -p2
 %patch8 -p2
+%patch10 -p1
 
 %build
 # disable warning unused-but-set-variable which will raise error because of -Werror