diff --git a/bz2023218.patch b/bz2023218.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4c9598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bz2023218.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -Nupr a/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c b/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
+--- a/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c	2020-10-30 06:13:56.000000000 -0500
++++ b/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c	2022-01-12 10:58:37.704782953 -0600
+@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ int all_time_opt = FALSE;
+ int clamping = TRUE;
+ 
+ /* user options that control parallelisation */
++#define MAX_CPUS 256
+ int processors = -1;
+ int bwriter_size;
+ 
+@@ -4385,6 +4386,10 @@ void initialise_threads(int readq, int f
+ #endif
+ 	}
+ 
++	/* Limit the number of processors we're going to use */
++	if(processors > MAX_CPUS)
++		processors = MAX_CPUS;
++
+ 	if(multiply_overflow(processors, 3) ||
+ 			multiply_overflow(processors * 3, sizeof(pthread_t)))
+ 		BAD_ERROR("Processors too large\n");
diff --git a/squashfs-tools.spec b/squashfs-tools.spec
index 83718d6..a816b16 100644
--- a/squashfs-tools.spec
+++ b/squashfs-tools.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Summary: Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems
 %global forgeurl https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools
 Version: 4.4
 Name: squashfs-tools
-Release: 7.git1%{?dist}
+Release: 8.git1%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 URL: %{forgeurl}/archive/4.4-git.1.tar.gz
 Source: 4.4-git.1.tar.gz
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Source: 4.4-git.1.tar.gz
 Source1: mksquashfs.1
 Source2: unsquashfs.1
 
+Patch0: bz2023218.patch
+
 BuildRequires: make
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires: zlib-devel
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ contains the utilities for manipulating squashfs filesystems.
 
 %prep
 %setup -n %{name}-4.4-git.1
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %set_build_flags
@@ -49,6 +52,10 @@ install -m 644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/unsquashfs.1
 %{_sbindir}/unsquashfs
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 12 2022 Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com> - 4.4-8.git1
+- limit CPUs on large machines to avoid running out of resources
+  rhbz#2023218
+
 * Tue Aug 10 2021 Mohan Boddu <mboddu@redhat.com> - 4.4-7.git1
 - Rebuilt for IMA sigs, glibc 2.34, aarch64 flags
   Related: rhbz#1991688