diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/fping/fping_5.1.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/fping/fping_5.1.bb
index f2dd897..0682eaf 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/fping/fping_5.1.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/fping/fping_5.1.bb
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@
 NO_GENERIC_LICENSE[fping] = "COPYING"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c6170fbadddfcd74f011515291d96901"
 
-SRC_URI = "http://www.fping.org/dist/fping-${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = "http://www.fping.org/dist/fping-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://0001-fping-Initialize-msghdr-struct-in-a-portable-way.patch \
+           "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1ee5268c063d76646af2b4426052e7d81a42b657e6a77d8e7d3d2e60fd7409fe"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/fping-${PV}"