diff --git a/0003-core-when-reloading-delay-any-actions-on-journal-and.patch b/0003-core-when-reloading-delay-any-actions-on-journal-and.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63514e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0003-core-when-reloading-delay-any-actions-on-journal-and.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+From e63ebf71edd7947f29389c72e851d8df5c7bedda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
+Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:01:05 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] core: when reloading, delay any actions on journal and dbus
+ connections
+
+manager_recheck_journal() and manager_recheck_dbus() would be called to early
+while we were deserialiazing units, before the systemd-journald.service and
+dbus.service have been deserialized. In effect we'd disable logging to the
+journald and close the bus connection. The first is not very noticable, it
+mostly means that logs emitted during deserialization are lost. The second is
+more noticeable, because manager_recheck_dbus() would call bus_done_api() and
+bus_done_system() and close dbus connections. Logging and bus connection would
+then be restored later after the respective units have been deserialized.
+
+This is easily reproduced by calling:
+  $ sudo gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.systemd1 --object-path /org/freedesktop/systemd1 --method "org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.Reload"
+which works fine before 8559b3b75cb, and then starts failing with:
+  Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Remote peer disconnected
+
+None of this should happen, and we should delay changing state until after
+deserialization is complete when reloading. manager_reload() already included
+the calls to manager_recheck_journal() and manager_recheck_dbus(), so the
+connection state will be updated after deserialization during reloading is done.
+
+Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1554578.
+---
+ src/core/unit.c | 7 +++++--
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/core/unit.c b/src/core/unit.c
+index 815701ad4e..f88aabba61 100644
+--- a/src/core/unit.c
++++ b/src/core/unit.c
+@@ -2501,8 +2501,11 @@ void unit_notify(Unit *u, UnitActiveState os, UnitActiveState ns, bool reload_su
+                 }
+         }
+ 
+-        manager_recheck_journal(m);
+-        manager_recheck_dbus(m);
++        if (!MANAGER_IS_RELOADING(u->manager)) {
++                manager_recheck_journal(m);
++                manager_recheck_dbus(m);
++        }
++
+         unit_trigger_notify(u);
+ 
+         if (!MANAGER_IS_RELOADING(u->manager)) {
diff --git a/systemd.spec b/systemd.spec
index f1a890d..5d79adf 100644
--- a/systemd.spec
+++ b/systemd.spec
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 Name:           systemd
 Url:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
 Version:        238
-Release:        3%{?gitcommit:.git%{gitcommitshort}}%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?gitcommit:.git%{gitcommitshort}}%{?dist}
 # For a breakdown of the licensing, see README
 License:        LGPLv2+ and MIT and GPLv2+
 Summary:        System and Service Manager
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ GIT_DIR=../../src/systemd/.git git diffab -M v233..master@{2017-06-15} -- hwdb/[
 
 Patch0001:      0001-test-cgroup-util-bail-out-when-running-under-mock.patch
 Patch0002:      0002-basic-fs-util-skip-fsync_directory_of_file-if-proc-s.patch
+Patch0003:      0003-core-when-reloading-delay-any-actions-on-journal-and.patch
 
 Patch0998:      0998-resolved-create-etc-resolv.conf-symlink-at-runtime.patch
 
@@ -704,6 +705,9 @@ fi
 %files tests -f .file-list-tests
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Mar 16 2018 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 238-4
+- Do not close dbus connection during dbus reload call (#1554578)
+
 * Wed Mar  7 2018 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 238-3
 - Revert the patches for GRUB BootLoaderSpec support
 - Add patch for /etc/machine-id creation (#1552843)