diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
index 52ad5ceeed..0fdb689b2e 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 5.1
+CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 5.4
 CIFS_UTILS_SOURCE  = cifs-utils-$(CIFS_UTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2
 CIFS_UTILS_SITE    = ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
 
+define CIFS_UTILS_NO_WERROR
+	$(SED) 's/-Werror//' $(@D)/Makefile.in
+endef
+
+CIFS_UTILS_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += CIFS_UTILS_NO_WERROR
+
 $(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS))