diff --git a/showmarks-signs.patch b/showmarks-signs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2b377d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/showmarks-signs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From e752d376f3566b9ca646914d148259097fdc713a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Tobias Gehring <tobias.gehring@fysik.dtu.dk>
+Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 17:37:23 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] vim doesn't allow signs at the first line any more
+
+---
+ plugin/showmarks.vim | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/plugin/showmarks.vim b/plugin/showmarks.vim
+index affd240..80d9ab1 100644
+--- a/plugin/showmarks.vim
++++ b/plugin/showmarks.vim
+@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ fun! s:ShowMarks()
+ 					exe 'hi link '.s:ShowMarksDLink{nm}.nm.' '.b:ShowMarksLink{nm}
+ 				endif
+ 				let mark_at{ln} = nm
+-				if !exists('b:placed_'.nm) || b:placed_{nm} != ln
++				if ln > 0 && (!exists('b:placed_'.nm) || b:placed_{nm} != ln)
+ 					exe 'sign unplace '.id.' buffer='.winbufnr(0)
+ 					exe 'sign place '.id.' name=ShowMark'.nm.' line='.ln.' buffer='.winbufnr(0)
+ 					let b:placed_{nm} = ln
diff --git a/vim-plugins.changes b/vim-plugins.changes
index 739ff26..b7acc02 100644
--- a/vim-plugins.changes
+++ b/vim-plugins.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Apr 10 08:15:38 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Fix showmarks script wrt bsc#905770:
+  * add patch from upstream https://github.com/vim-scripts/ShowMarks/pull/3:
+    + showmarks-signs.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 16 11:26:24 UTC 2016 - astieger@suse.com
 
diff --git a/vim-plugins.spec b/vim-plugins.spec
index 80a7e93..fd27d35 100644
--- a/vim-plugins.spec
+++ b/vim-plugins.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package vim-plugins
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2016 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2017 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Source34:       https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-vim/archive/v%{edit
 Source35:       https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/archive/v%{fugitive_version}.tar.gz#/vimplugin-fugitive-%{fugitive_version}.tar.gz
 Source100:      https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/pack-tools/master/contrib/vim/spec.snippets
 Patch1:         locateopen-1.3-locate-support.patch
+Patch2:         showmarks-signs.patch
 BuildRequires:  vim
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildArch:      noarch
@@ -590,6 +591,9 @@ Provides git integration with vim.
 pushd vimplugin-locateopen-%locateopen_version
 %patch1
 popd
+pushd vimplugin-showmarks-%showmarks_version
+%patch2 -p1
+popd
 
 %build