diff --git a/SPECS/criu.spec b/SPECS/criu.spec
index 4c8e29c..eaff0b5 100644
--- a/SPECS/criu.spec
+++ b/SPECS/criu.spec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ URL: http://criu.org/
 Source0: http://download.openvz.org/criu/criu-%{version}.tar.bz2
 # The patch aio-fix.patch is needed as RHEL7
 # doesn't do "nr_events *= 2" in ioctx_alloc().
-Patch0: aio-fix.patch
+#Patch0: aio-fix.patch
 Patch1: 0001-kerndat-Detect-if-we-have-guard-page-mangle-in-procf.patch
 Patch2: 0002-mem-Don-t-assume-guard-page-is-returned-in-procfs-wi.patch
 Patch3: 0001-Fix-ppc64el-build-failure-by-not-redefining-AT_VECTO.patch 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ their content in human-readable form.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1
+# patch0 -p1
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libexecdir}/%{name}
 %changelog
 * Wed Apr  4 2018 Johnny Hughes <johnny@centos.org> - 2.12-4.0.1
 - Roll in el7a patch and consolidate tree for arm32 and aarch64/ppc64le
+- remove patch0 for el7a/armhfp kernels
 
 * Wed Apr  4 2018 Pablo Greco <pablo@fliagreco.com.ar> - 2.12-2
 - Update to build on armhfp