diff --git a/extra/util-linux/build b/extra/util-linux/build
index e6fe58d0..e27f5ceb 100755
--- a/extra/util-linux/build
+++ b/extra/util-linux/build
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
+patch -p1 < posix.patch
+
 ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr \
     --localstatedir=/var \
diff --git a/extra/util-linux/checksums b/extra/util-linux/checksums
index c1849a6e..eed8c907 100644
--- a/extra/util-linux/checksums
+++ b/extra/util-linux/checksums
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-69d498a93b08e1bc6dbf44ef78661c8fc8e52b086150eb13ef52290308c6525c02
+6d1740c74ea7e47037320259b0e7a772aabc1cfcccf4ac2d3cc1726639ecb92d18
+5693b92b54eb479474dc706fdbca7afd1e09af992b9614b913130a7766606ed2e0
diff --git a/extra/util-linux/patches/posix.patch b/extra/util-linux/patches/posix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2a45776
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/util-linux/patches/posix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+diff --git a/tools/all_syscalls b/tools/all_syscalls
+index 9c14778..062ac4e 100755
+--- a/tools/all_syscalls
++++ b/tools/all_syscalls
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/bin/bash
++#!/bin/sh
+ 
+ set -e
+ 
+@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ SYSCALL_INCLUDES="
+ #include <sys/syscall.h>
+ "
+ 
+-trap 'rm $OUTPUT $OUTPUT.deps' ERR
++trap '[ $? -eq 0 ] || rm $OUTPUT $OUTPUT.deps' EXIT
+ 
+-"$@" -MD -MF "$OUTPUT.deps" <<< "$SYSCALL_INCLUDES" -dM -E - \
+-	| gawk 'match($0, /^#define __NR_([^ ]+)/, res) { print "UL_SYSCALL(\"" res[1] "\", __NR_" res[1] ")" }' \
++echo "$SYSCALL_INCLUDES" | "$@" -MD -MF "$OUTPUT.deps" -dM -E - \
++	| awk 'match($0, /^#define __NR_([^ ]+)/, res) { print "UL_SYSCALL(\"" res[1] "\", __NR_" res[1] ")" }' \
+ 	| sort \
+ 	> "$OUTPUT"
diff --git a/extra/util-linux/sources b/extra/util-linux/sources
index 58d2a98c..ff52c15b 100644
--- a/extra/util-linux/sources
+++ b/extra/util-linux/sources
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.39/util-linux-2.39.3.tar.xz
+https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.40/util-linux-2.40.tar.xz
+patches/posix.patch
diff --git a/extra/util-linux/version b/extra/util-linux/version
index ded98bd6..d9e6960d 100644
--- a/extra/util-linux/version
+++ b/extra/util-linux/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.39.3 1
+2.40 1