diff --git a/0001-daemon-Fix-upower-not-having-access-to-udev-events.patch b/0001-daemon-Fix-upower-not-having-access-to-udev-events.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..31aea08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-daemon-Fix-upower-not-having-access-to-udev-events.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+From fe356951a9d45fee73036aaa72661f0319dffba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
+Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:30:44 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] daemon: Fix upower not having access to udev events
+
+PrivateNetwork=true will cut off upower from the udev netlink socket, so
+it's not what we want to use, as we want those events.
+
+See https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-July/041000.html
+
+Closes: #68
+---
+ src/upower.service.in | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/upower.service.in b/src/upower.service.in
+index 835529a..8838655 100644
+--- a/src/upower.service.in
++++ b/src/upower.service.in
+@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ ProtectHome=true
+ PrivateTmp=true
+ 
+ # Network
+-PrivateNetwork=true
++# PrivateNetwork=true would block udev's netlink socket
++RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_UNIX AF_NETLINK
+ 
+ # Execute Mappings
+ MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
+-- 
+2.19.0
+
diff --git a/upower.spec b/upower.spec
index 6756703..965e17e 100644
--- a/upower.spec
+++ b/upower.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 Summary:        Power Management Service
 Name:           upower
 Version:        0.99.8
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        3%{?dist}
 License:        GPLv2+
 Group:          System Environment/Libraries
 URL:            http://upower.freedesktop.org/
 Source0:        https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/uploads/9125ab7ee96fdc4ecc68cfefb50c1cab/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
+# Backported from upstream
+Patch0:         0001-daemon-Fix-upower-not-having-access-to-udev-events.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  sqlite-devel
 BuildRequires:  libtool
@@ -107,6 +109,9 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.la
 %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/UPower/*
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 07 2018 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 0.99.8-3
+- Backport an upstream fix for upower not having access to udev events
+
 * Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.99.8-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild