diff --git a/fix-asarray.patch b/fix-asarray.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7aa6ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-asarray.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+From: Antonio Larrosa <alarrosa@suse.com>
+Subject: dtype is not a positional argument
+
+Index: numpy-1.20.3/numpy/core/_asarray.py
+===================================================================
+--- numpy-1.20.3.orig/numpy/core/_asarray.py
++++ numpy-1.20.3/numpy/core/_asarray.py
+@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def asarray(a, dtype=None, order=None, *
+     if like is not None:
+         return _asarray_with_like(a, dtype=dtype, order=order, like=like)
+ 
+-    return array(a, dtype, copy=False, order=order)
++    return array(a, dtype=dtype, copy=False, order=order)
+ 
+ 
+ _asarray_with_like = array_function_dispatch(
+@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def asanyarray(a, dtype=None, order=None
+     if like is not None:
+         return _asanyarray_with_like(a, dtype=dtype, order=order, like=like)
+ 
+-    return array(a, dtype, copy=False, order=order, subok=True)
++    return array(a, dtype=dtype, copy=False, order=order, subok=True)
+ 
+ 
+ _asanyarray_with_like = array_function_dispatch(
+@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ def asfortranarray(a, dtype=None, *, lik
+     if like is not None:
+         return _asfortranarray_with_like(a, dtype=dtype, like=like)
+ 
+-    return array(a, dtype, copy=False, order='F', ndmin=1)
++    return array(a, dtype=dtype, copy=False, order='F', ndmin=1)
+ 
+ 
+ _asfortranarray_with_like = array_function_dispatch(
diff --git a/python-numpy.changes b/python-numpy.changes
index 51a96ea..e0ae6bd 100644
--- a/python-numpy.changes
+++ b/python-numpy.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul  5 12:22:33 UTC 2021 - Antonio Larrosa <alarrosa@suse.com>
+
+- Add patch to fix an invalid usage of the dtype argument. This
+  has already been fixed upstream but since Staging:F is so
+  crowded now with python packages, I think it's better to patch
+  it and update numpy once Staging:F is cleared:
+  * fix-asarray.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun  2 18:56:39 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-numpy.spec b/python-numpy.spec
index 03e2c5c..9f975fe 100644
--- a/python-numpy.spec
+++ b/python-numpy.spec
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ Source99:       python-numpy-rpmlintrc
 Patch0:         numpy-buildfix.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE numpy-1.9.0-remove-__declspec.patch -- fix for spurious compiler warnings that cause build failure
 Patch1:         numpy-1.9.0-remove-__declspec.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM fix-asarray.patch alarrosa@suse.com -- fix invalid usage of dtype which is not a positional parameter
+Patch2:         fix-asarray.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Cython >= 0.29.21}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module base >= 3.7}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
@@ -160,6 +162,7 @@ This package contains files for developing applications using numpy.
 %setup -q -n numpy-%{version}
 %patch0 -p1
 %patch1 -p1
+%patch2 -p1
 # Fix non-executable scripts
 sed -i '1s/^#!.*$//' numpy/{compat/setup,random/_examples/cython/setup,distutils/{conv_template,cpuinfo,exec_command,from_template,setup,system_info},f2py/{__init__,auxfuncs,capi_maps,cb_rules,cfuncs,common_rules,crackfortran,diagnose,f2py2e,f90mod_rules,func2subr,rules,setup,use_rules},ma/{setup,bench},matrixlib/setup,setup,testing/{print_coercion_tables,setup}}.py
 sed -i '1s/^#!.*$//' numpy/random/_examples/cython/*.pyx