diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.6/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.6/default.nix
index 7930bd909aa5..9ad5af8eecd2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.6/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.6/default.nix
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ let
     qtscript = [ ./qtscript.patch ];
     qtserialport = [ ./qtserialport.patch ];
     qttools = [ ./qttools.patch ];
-    qtwebengine =
-      optional stdenv.needsPax ./qtwebengine-paxmark-mksnapshot.patch;
+    qtwebengine = [ ./qtwebengine-seccomp.patch ]
+      ++ optional stdenv.needsPax ./qtwebengine-paxmark-mksnapshot.patch;
     qtwebkit = [ ./qtwebkit.patch ];
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.6/qtwebengine-seccomp.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.6/qtwebengine-seccomp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bf6af8059823
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.6/qtwebengine-seccomp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Backported to Qt 5.6 for epoll_pwait fix on newer glibc
+Part of upstream Chromium's 4e8083b4ab953ba298aedfc4e79d464be15e4012
+Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1613883002
+---
+diff --git a/3rdparty/chromium/sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/syscall_sets.cc b/3rdparty/chromium/sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/syscall_sets.cc
+index 10278dc5fc9b..b30b3e6acef6 100644
+--- a/src/3rdparty/chromium/sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/syscall_sets.cc
++++ b/src/3rdparty/chromium/sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/syscall_sets.cc
+@@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ bool SyscallSets::IsAllowedEpoll(int sysno) {
+     case __NR_epoll_create:
+     case __NR_epoll_wait:
+ #endif
++    case __NR_epoll_pwait:
+     case __NR_epoll_create1:
+     case __NR_epoll_ctl:
+       return true;
+@@ -421,7 +422,6 @@ bool SyscallSets::IsAllowedEpoll(int sysno) {
+ #if defined(__x86_64__)
+     case __NR_epoll_ctl_old:
+ #endif
+-    case __NR_epoll_pwait:
+ #if defined(__x86_64__)
+     case __NR_epoll_wait_old:
+ #endif