diff --git a/util-linux-lib-sysfs-deinit.patch b/util-linux-lib-sysfs-deinit.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4fb0b83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util-linux-lib-sysfs-deinit.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From cf06399d6aeb1e558baf2b46b617496ed7aac81c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
+Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:11:41 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] lib: do not attempt to close(0) in sysfs_deinit()
+
+If the 'open' fails we 'goto err' which runs 'sysfs_deinit()' on a 'cxt'
+which hasn't been fully initialised. The 'dir_fd' is still 0, so
+sysfs_deinit calls "close(0)".
+
+Addresses: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714151
+Reported-by: Diego Ercolani <diego.ercolani@gmail.com>
+Analysed-by: Neil Brown <nfbrown@suse.com>
+Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
+---
+ lib/sysfs.c |    1 +
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+
+Index: util-linux-2.20/lib/sysfs.c
+===================================================================
+--- util-linux-2.20.orig/lib/sysfs.c
++++ util-linux-2.20/lib/sysfs.c
+@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int sysfs_init(struct sysfs_cxt *cxt, de
+ 	int fd, rc = 0;
+ 
+ 	memset(cxt, 0, sizeof(*cxt));
++	cxt->dir_fd = -1;
+ 
+ 	if (!sysfs_devno_path(devno, path, sizeof(path)))
+ 		goto err;
diff --git a/util-linux.changes b/util-linux.changes
index 405f49c..df93052 100644
--- a/util-linux.changes
+++ b/util-linux.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 13 09:10:43 UTC 2011 - puzel@suse.com
+
+- add util-linux-lib-sysfs-deinit.patch (bnc#714151) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Aug 29 14:57:57 UTC 2011 - puzel@suse.com
 
diff --git a/util-linux.spec b/util-linux.spec
index 4bf00df..37b7867 100644
--- a/util-linux.spec
+++ b/util-linux.spec
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ Patch1:         util-linux-2.12r-fdisk_remove_bogus_warnings.patch
 # crypto patch
 Patch2:         util-linux-2.17.1-mount_losetup_crypto.patch
 Patch3:         util-linux-sfdisk-manpage-fix.patch
+Patch4:         util-linux-lib-sysfs-deinit.patch
 
 ##
 ## adjtimex
@@ -189,6 +190,7 @@ Files to develop applications using the libmount library.
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
+%patch4 -p1
 
 #
 cd adjtimex-*