diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/libnl/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/libnl/default.nix
index 81a3af54628e..f66df8163ff1 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/libnl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/libnl/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, bison, flex, pkgconfig }:
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, autoreconfHook, bison, flex, pkgconfig }:
 
 let version = "3.3.0"; in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "man" ];
 
+  patches = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isMusl
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gentoo/musl/48d2a28710ae40877fd3e178ead1fb1bb0baa62c/dev-libs/libnl/files/libnl-3.3.0_rc1-musl.patch";
+      sha256 = "0dd7xxikib201i99k2if066hh7gwf2i4ffckrjplq6lr206jn00r";
+    });
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook bison flex pkgconfig ];
 
   meta = with lib; {