diff --git a/macros.systemd b/macros.systemd
index 8be5606..6cc72d1 100644
--- a/macros.systemd
+++ b/macros.systemd
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 # should be preferred unless the package is intended to be portable
 # across multiple distributions based on RPM.
 
+%_systemd_util_dir /usr/lib/systemd
 %_unitdir /usr/lib/systemd/system
 %_userunitdir /usr/lib/systemd/user
 %_presetdir /usr/lib/systemd/system-preset
diff --git a/systemd-rpm-macros.changes b/systemd-rpm-macros.changes
index 7bed781..02d4a26 100644
--- a/systemd-rpm-macros.changes
+++ b/systemd-rpm-macros.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 17 12:25:15 UTC 2021 - Franck Bui <fbui@suse.com>
+
+- Introduce %_systemd_util_dir
+
+  It's a backport of upstream commit 3bc66bfa0136e370a8f7b06c3b69a52f5636ef82.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep 29 11:27:11 UTC 2021 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>