diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/0001-properly-check-for-HAVE_FALLOC_PH-in-both-occurrence.patch b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/0001-properly-check-for-HAVE_FALLOC_PH-in-both-occurrence.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e4bb0db3abf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/0001-properly-check-for-HAVE_FALLOC_PH-in-both-occurrence.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 42d3c4e7e95ea0e0dda9b502b2de2c4ed9ed9467 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "T.M. Abraham" <tabraham@novell.com>
+Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 21:58:55 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] properly check for HAVE_FALLOC_PH in both occurrences
+
+---
+ nbd-server.c |    2 +-
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/nbd-server.c b/nbd-server.c
+index 0ecf0e8..2cd066d 100644
+--- a/nbd-server.c
++++ b/nbd-server.c
+@@ -1461,7 +1461,7 @@ int expflush(CLIENT *client) {
+  * file to resparsify stuff that isn't needed anymore (see NBD_CMD_TRIM)
+  */
+ int exptrim(struct nbd_request* req, CLIENT* client) {
+-#ifdef HAVE_FALLOC_PH
++#if HAVE_FALLOC_PH
+ 	FILE_INFO prev = g_array_index(client->export, FILE_INFO, 0);
+ 	FILE_INFO cur = prev;
+ 	int i = 1;
+-- 
+1.7.8
+
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix
index ef032eee390e..60eea0e2d9e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/nbd/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib }:
 
 let
-  name = "nbd-2.9.24";
+  name = "nbd-2.9.25";
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   inherit name;
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/nbd/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "025cqsx6cwbr62javdvm5vx675ai0b1absbx4if1v5pp9hzrpxmq";
+    sha256 = "179548406aa2bcb0c6bff3aa0484dbb04136ec055aa385c84fefbe3c9ea96ba4";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [pkgconfig glib];
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig glib ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isLinux stdenv.glibc.kernelHeaders;
   postInstall = ''install -D -m 444 README "$out/share/doc/nbd/README"'';
 
+  patches = [ ./0001-properly-check-for-HAVE_FALLOC_PH-in-both-occurrence.patch ];
+
   # The test suite doesn't succeed on Hydra (NixOS), because it assumes
   # that certain global configuration files available.
   doCheck = false;