diff --git a/pkgs/tools/security/nsjail/001-fix-bison-link-error.patch b/pkgs/tools/security/nsjail/001-fix-bison-link-error.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..427cea5b02b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/security/nsjail/001-fix-bison-link-error.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 8e309a0af0851ab54ca7c6d51b6f3d19ee42c8ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
+Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:36:40 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Replace YYUSE call with void cast in src/parser.y
+
+The YYUSE macro was renamed to YY_USE in bison 3.7.5; we might as well
+avoid using it altogether and cast the unused variable to void instead.
+
+Fixes the following linker error:
+
+/usr/bin/ld: kafel/libkafel.a(libkafel.o): in function `kafel_yyerror':
+arm_syscalls.c:(.text+0x6984): undefined reference to `YYUSE'
+---
+ src/parser.y | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/parser.y b/src/parser.y
+index e0f109c..0e01373 100644
+--- a/kafel/src/parser.y
++++ b/kafel/src/parser.y
+@@ -420,8 +420,8 @@ const_def
+ 
+ void yyerror(YYLTYPE * loc, struct kafel_ctxt* ctxt, yyscan_t scanner,
+              const char *msg) {
++  (void)scanner; /* suppress unused-parameter warning */
+   if (!ctxt->lexical_error) {
+-    YYUSE(scanner);
+     if (loc->filename != NULL) {
+       append_error(ctxt, "%s:%d:%d: %s", loc->filename, loc->first_line, loc->first_column, msg);
+     } else {
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/security/nsjail/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/security/nsjail/default.nix
index d48564ce95b..568113368a0 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/security/nsjail/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/security/nsjail/default.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "nsjail";
-  version = "3.0";
+  version = "3.0"; # Bumping? Remove the bison patch.
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner           = "google";
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ libnl protobuf protobufc ];
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  patches = [
+    # To remove after bumping 3.0
+    ./001-fix-bison-link-error.patch
+  ];
+
   preBuild = ''
     makeFlagsArray+=(USER_DEFINES='-DNEWUIDMAP_PATH=${shadow}/bin/newuidmap -DNEWGIDMAP_PATH=${shadow}/bin/newgidmap')
   '';