diff --git a/bzip2-ldflags.patch b/bzip2-ldflags.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2281262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bzip2-ldflags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+diff -up bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile.jx bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile
+--- bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile.jx	2010-09-10 18:46:02.000000000 -0400
++++ bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile	2015-08-14 13:04:33.891504131 -0400
+@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ SHELL=/bin/sh
+ CC=gcc
+ AR=ar
+ RANLIB=ranlib
+-LDFLAGS=
+-
+-BIGFILES=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
+-CFLAGS=-Wall -Winline -O2 -g $(BIGFILES)
+ 
+ # Where you want it installed when you do 'make install'
+ PREFIX=/usr/local
+diff -up bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so.jx bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so
+--- bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so.jx	2015-08-14 13:04:33.885503955 -0400
++++ bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so	2015-08-14 13:06:52.554581179 -0400
+@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
+ SHELL=/bin/sh
+ CC=gcc
+ BIGFILES=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
+-CFLAGS=-fpic -fPIC -Wall -Winline -O2 -g $(BIGFILES)
+ 
+ OBJS= blocksort.o  \
+       huffman.o    \
+@@ -35,8 +34,8 @@ OBJS= blocksort.o  \
+       bzlib.o
+ 
+ all: $(OBJS)
+-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.6 $(OBJS)
+-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.6
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.6 $(OBJS)
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.6
+ 	rm -f libbz2.so.1.0
+ 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.6 libbz2.so.1.0
+ 
diff --git a/bzip2.spec b/bzip2.spec
index 6bf6ac2..591fbe4 100644
--- a/bzip2.spec
+++ b/bzip2.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Summary: A file compression utility
 Name: bzip2
 Version: 1.0.6
-Release: 16%{?dist}
+Release: 17%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Group: Applications/File
 URL: http://www.bzip.org/
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Patch0: bzip2-1.0.4-saneso.patch
 Patch1: bzip2-1.0.4-cflags.patch
 # resolves: #226979
 Patch2: bzip2-1.0.4-bzip2recover.patch
+Patch3: bzip2-ldflags.patch
 
 %description
 Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor.
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ Libraries for applications using the bzip2 compression format.
 %patch0 -p1 -b .saneso
 %patch1 -p1 -b .cflags
 %patch2 -p1 -b .bz2recover
+%patch3 -p1 -b .ldflags
 
 %build
 %if 0%{?rhel} >= 7
@@ -62,11 +64,13 @@ Libraries for applications using the bzip2 compression format.
 
 make -f Makefile-libbz2_so CC="%{__cc}" AR="%{__ar}" RANLIB="%{__ranlib}" \
     CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fpic -fPIC $O3" \
+    LDFLAGS="%{__global_ldflags}" \
     %{?_smp_mflags} all
 
 rm -f *.o
 make CC="%{__cc}" AR="%{__ar}" RANLIB="%{__ranlib}" \
     CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 $O3" \
+    LDFLAGS="%{__global_ldflags}" \
     %{?_smp_mflags} all
 
 %install
@@ -115,6 +119,9 @@ ln -s bzgrep.1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man1/bzfgrep.1
 %{_libdir}/*.so
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Aug 14 2015 Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> 1.0.6-17
+- Pass ldflags through so hardening actually works
+
 * Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.6-16
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild