diff --git a/package/ecryptfs-utils/0001-musl.patch b/package/ecryptfs-utils/0001-musl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4a3b8a707e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/ecryptfs-utils/0001-musl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+fix musl build
+
+Patch inspired by
+https://github.com/kraj/meta-musl/blob/master/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux-2.25/0001-switch_root-use-typeof-instead-of-__SWORD_TYPE-for-s.patch
+
+Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
+
+diff -uNr ecryptfs-utils-109.org/src/utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c ecryptfs-utils-109/src/utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c
+--- ecryptfs-utils-109.org/src/utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c	2016-01-22 17:04:52.000000000 +0100
++++ ecryptfs-utils-109/src/utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c	2016-01-24 16:52:37.000000000 +0100
+@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@
+ 
+ static int check_cwd_f_type()
+ {
++	struct statfs buf;
+ 	/**
+ 	 * This is *not* a list of compatible lower filesystems list for
+ 	 * eCryptfs. This is a list of filesystems that we reasonably expect to
+@@ -235,7 +236,7 @@
+ 	 * deceive other programs with a crafted /proc/self/*. See
+ 	 * https://launchpad.net/bugs/1530566 for more details.
+ 	 */
+-	__SWORD_TYPE f_type_whitelist[] = {
++	typeof(buf.f_type) f_type_whitelist[] = {
+ 		0x61756673 /* AUFS_SUPER_MAGIC */,
+ 		0x9123683E /* BTRFS_SUPER_MAGIC */,
+ 		0x00C36400 /* CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC */,
+@@ -259,7 +260,6 @@
+ 		0x58465342 /* XFS_SB_MAGIC */,
+ 		0x2FC12FC1 /* ZFS_SUPER_MAGIC */,
+ 	};
+-	struct statfs buf;
+ 	size_t i, whitelist_len;
+ 
+ 	if (statfs(".", &buf) != 0) {