diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-block/open-iscsi/files/open-iscsi-2.0.873-remove-kernel-version-check.patch b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-block/open-iscsi/files/open-iscsi-2.0.873-remove-kernel-version-check.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1c7f1c0445
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-block/open-iscsi/files/open-iscsi-2.0.873-remove-kernel-version-check.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From d5629f76e1775550692be0d94c8e7f82a96f657d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Nick Owens <mischief@offblast.org>
+Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:27:14 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] remove kernel version check
+
+---
+ usr/Makefile | 18 +-----------------
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/usr/Makefile b/usr/Makefile
+index 5ac0726..9c436df 100644
+--- a/usr/Makefile
++++ b/usr/Makefile
+@@ -2,24 +2,8 @@
+ 
+ OSNAME=$(shell uname -s)
+ 
+-# allow users to override these
+-# eg to compile for a kernel that you aren't currently running
+-KERNELRELEASE ?= $(shell uname -r)
+-KSRC ?= /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/build
+-
+-KSUBLEVEL=$(shell cat $(KSRC)/Makefile | awk -F= '/^SUBLEVEL =/ {print $$2}' | \
+-			sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$$//')
+-
+ ifeq ($(OSNAME),Linux)
+-	ifeq ($(KSUBLEVEL),11)
+-		IPC_CFLAGS=-DNETLINK_ISCSI=12 -D_GNU_SOURCE
+-	else
+-	ifeq ($(KSUBLEVEL),12)
+-		IPC_CFLAGS=-DNETLINK_ISCSI=12 -D_GNU_SOURCE
+-	else
+-		IPC_CFLAGS=-DNETLINK_ISCSI=8 -D_GNU_SOURCE
+-	endif
+-	endif
++IPC_CFLAGS=-DNETLINK_ISCSI=8 -D_GNU_SOURCE
+ IPC_OBJ=netlink.o
+ else
+ ifeq ($(OSNAME),FreeBSD)
+-- 
+2.4.6
+
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-block/open-iscsi/open-iscsi-2.0.873.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-block/open-iscsi/open-iscsi-2.0.873.ebuild
index 23b4d617ca..7a0d87f71e 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-block/open-iscsi/open-iscsi-2.0.873.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-block/open-iscsi/open-iscsi-2.0.873.ebuild
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ pkg_setup() {
 
 src_prepare() {
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-Makefiles.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-remove-kernel-version-check.patch
 
 	sed -i -e 's:^\(iscsid.startup\)\s*=.*:\1 = /usr/sbin/iscsid:' etc/iscsid.conf || die
 }
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ src_configure() {
 src_compile() {
 	use debug && append-flags -DDEBUG_TCP -DDEBUG_SCSI
 
-	KSRC="${KV_DIR}" CFLAGS="" \
+	CFLAGS="" \
 	emake \
 		OPTFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" \
 		AR="$(tc-getAR)" CC="$(tc-getCC)" \