diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index 2b0de2858..11352bc59 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 # For non-released -rc kernels, this will be appended after the rcX and
 # gitX tags, so a 3 here would become part of release "0.rcX.gitX.3"
 #
-%global baserelease 8
+%global baserelease 9
 %global fedora_build %{baserelease}
 
 # base_sublevel is the kernel version we're starting with and patching
@@ -641,6 +641,9 @@ Patch25069: 0001-acpi-video-Add-4-new-models-to-the-use_native_backli.patch
 #rhbz 1089545
 Patch25070: 0001-acpi-video-Add-use_native_backlight-quirks-for-Think.patch
 
+Patch25071: s390-appldata-add-slab.h-for-kzalloc-kfree.patch
+
+
 # END OF PATCH DEFINITIONS
 
 %endif
@@ -1361,6 +1364,8 @@ ApplyPatch 0001-acpi-video-Add-4-new-models-to-the-use_native_backli.patch
 #rhbz 1089545
 ApplyPatch 0001-acpi-video-Add-use_native_backlight-quirks-for-Think.patch
 
+ApplyPatch s390-appldata-add-slab.h-for-kzalloc-kfree.patch
+
 # END OF PATCH APPLICATIONS
 
 %endif
@@ -2231,6 +2236,9 @@ fi
 #                                    ||----w |
 #                                    ||     ||
 %changelog
+* Thu May 15 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 3.15.0-0.rc5.git2.9
+- Fix build fail on s390x
+
 * Wed May 14 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 3.15.0-0.rc5.git2.8
 - Enable autoprov for kernel module Provides (rhbz 1058331)
 - Enable xz compressed modules (from Kyle McMartin)
diff --git a/s390-appldata-add-slab.h-for-kzalloc-kfree.patch b/s390-appldata-add-slab.h-for-kzalloc-kfree.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3716ce8b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/s390-appldata-add-slab.h-for-kzalloc-kfree.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From 1eb5e8b7449ff017c2f358d97bd2fcd4eb87cc53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
+Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:35:43 -0400
+Subject: s390/appldata: add slab.h for kzalloc/kfree
+
+This fixes:
+arch/s390/appldata/appldata_mem.c:135:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'kzalloc' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
+arch/s390/appldata/appldata_mem.c:141:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'kfree' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
+
+Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
+Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
+Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
+
+diff --git a/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_mem.c b/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_mem.c
+index 42be537..edcf2a7 100644
+--- a/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_mem.c
++++ b/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_mem.c
+@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
+ #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
+ #include <linux/pagemap.h>
+ #include <linux/swap.h>
++#include <linux/slab.h>
+ #include <asm/io.h>
+ 
+ #include "appldata.h"
+-- 
+cgit v0.10.1
+