diff --git a/UCT-UD-fixed-compilation-by-gcc8.patch b/UCT-UD-fixed-compilation-by-gcc8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f8ee20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/UCT-UD-fixed-compilation-by-gcc8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+commit 851a26c3e553f88386658129ad2d4dca060e164c
+Author: Sergey Oblomov <sergeyo@mellanox.com>
+Date:   Mon Mar 19 07:25:32 2018 +0200
+
+    UCT/UD: fixed compilation by gcc8
+    
+    - removed 'packed' attribute from uct_ud_send_skb_inl_t structure
+
+diff --git src/uct/ib/ud/base/ud_def.h src/uct/ib/ud/base/ud_def.h
+index 0ccc0bb8495a..44d50ec643f8 100644
+--- src/uct/ib/ud/base/ud_def.h
++++ src/uct/ib/ud/base/ud_def.h
+@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ typedef struct uct_ud_zcopy_desc {
+ 
+ typedef struct uct_ud_send_skb_inl {
+     uct_ud_send_skb_t  super;
+-    uct_ud_neth_t      neth;
+-} UCS_S_PACKED uct_ud_send_skb_inl_t;
++    uct_ud_neth_t      neth; /* placeholder for super.neth, should not be used directly */
++} uct_ud_send_skb_inl_t;
+ 
+ 
+ typedef struct uct_ud_recv_skb {
diff --git a/openucx.changes b/openucx.changes
index a94271d..9a67b2b 100644
--- a/openucx.changes
+++ b/openucx.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 27 07:12:37 UTC 2018 - nmoreychaisemartin@suse.com
+
+- Add UCT-UD-fixed-compilation-by-gcc8.patch to fix compilation
+  with GCC8 (bsc#1084635)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jan 20 15:40:43 UTC 2018 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/openucx.spec b/openucx.spec
index aadfe0c..32a5053 100644
--- a/openucx.spec
+++ b/openucx.spec
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Url:            http://openucx.org/
 #Git-Web:	https://github.com/openucx/ucx
 Source:         https://github.com/openucx/ucx/releases/download/v%version/ucx-%version.tar.gz
 Patch1:         openucx-s390x-support.patch
+Patch2:         UCT-UD-fixed-compilation-by-gcc8.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf >= 2.63
 BuildRequires:  automake >= 1.10
 BuildRequires:  binutils-devel
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ underlying hardware.
 %prep
 %setup -qn ucx-%version
 %patch -P 1 -p1
+%patch2
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi