diff --git a/00293-fix-gc-alignment.patch b/00293-fix-gc-alignment.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..691b03e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/00293-fix-gc-alignment.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Fix for over-aligned GC info
+Patch by Florian Weimer
+
+See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1540316
+Upstream discussion: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-January/152000.html
+
+diff --git a/Include/objimpl.h b/Include/objimpl.h
+index 55e83eced6..aa906144dc 100644
+--- a/Include/objimpl.h
++++ b/Include/objimpl.h
+@@ -248,6 +248,18 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyVarObject *) _PyObject_GC_Resize(PyVarObject *, Py_ssize_t);
+ /* for source compatibility with 2.2 */
+ #define _PyObject_GC_Del PyObject_GC_Del
+ 
++/* Former over-aligned definition of PyGC_Head, used to compute the
++   size of the padding for the new version below. */
++union _gc_head;
++union _gc_head_old {
++    struct {
++        union _gc_head *gc_next;
++        union _gc_head *gc_prev;
++        Py_ssize_t gc_refs;
++    } gc;
++    long double dummy;
++};
++
+ /* GC information is stored BEFORE the object structure. */
+ typedef union _gc_head {
+     struct {
+@@ -255,7 +267,8 @@ typedef union _gc_head {
+         union _gc_head *gc_prev;
+         Py_ssize_t gc_refs;
+     } gc;
+-    long double dummy;  /* force worst-case alignment */
++    double dummy;  /* force worst-case alignment */
++    char dummy_padding[sizeof(union _gc_head_old)];
+ } PyGC_Head;
+ 
+ extern PyGC_Head *_PyGC_generation0;
diff --git a/python2.spec b/python2.spec
index 9c922a2..15e8548 100644
--- a/python2.spec
+++ b/python2.spec
@@ -768,6 +768,10 @@ Patch288: 00288-ambiguous-python-version-rpmbuild-warn.patch
 # (we handle it it in Setup.dist, see Patch0)
 Patch289: 00289-disable-nis-detection.patch
 
+# 00293 #
+# Fix over-alignment of _gc_head, the structure for GC information
+# See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1540316
+Patch293: 00293-fix-gc-alignment.patch
 
 # (New patches go here ^^^)
 #
@@ -1094,6 +1098,7 @@ mv Modules/cryptmodule.c Modules/_cryptmodule.c
 %patch287 -p1
 %patch288 -p1
 %patch289 -p1
+%patch293 -p1
 
 
 %if 0%{?_module_build}
@@ -1977,6 +1982,7 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 * Tue Jan 30 2018 Petr Viktorin <pviktori@redhat.com> - 2.7.14-9
 - Add patch 288: warn/fail if Python 2 is called as /usr/bin/python and
   PYTHON_DISALLOW_AMBIGUOUS_VERSION is set
+- Add patch 289: Fix for over-aligned GC info
 
 * Sat Jan 20 2018 Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.14-8
 - Rebuilt for switch to libxcrypt