diff --git a/SOURCES/0044-policycoreutils-Improve-error-message-when-selabel_o.patch b/SOURCES/0044-policycoreutils-Improve-error-message-when-selabel_o.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..634a69b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/0044-policycoreutils-Improve-error-message-when-selabel_o.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 69da6239d8505a9d6ca547187f71a351df17f157 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Vit Mojzis <vmojzis@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 18:35:27 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] policycoreutils: Improve error message when selabel_open
+ fails
+
+When selabel_open fails to locate file_context files and
+selabel_opt_path is not specified (e.g. when the policy type is
+missconfigured in /etc/selinux/config), perror only prints
+"No such file or directory".
+This can be confusing in case of "restorecon" since it's
+not apparent that the issue is in policy store.
+
+Before:
+  \# restorecon -v /tmp/foo.txt
+  No such file or directory
+After:
+  \# restorecon -v /tmp/foo.txt
+  /etc/selinux/yolo/contexts/files/file_contexts: No such file or directory
+
+Signed-off-by: Vit Mojzis <vmojzis@redhat.com>
+---
+ policycoreutils/setfiles/restore.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/policycoreutils/setfiles/restore.c b/policycoreutils/setfiles/restore.c
+index d3335d1a..ba2668b3 100644
+--- a/policycoreutils/setfiles/restore.c
++++ b/policycoreutils/setfiles/restore.c
+@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ void restore_init(struct restore_opts *opts)
+ 
+ 	opts->hnd = selabel_open(SELABEL_CTX_FILE, selinux_opts, 3);
+ 	if (!opts->hnd) {
+-		perror(opts->selabel_opt_path);
++		perror(opts->selabel_opt_path ? opts->selabel_opt_path : selinux_file_context_path());
+ 		exit(1);
+ 	}
+ 
+-- 
+2.30.2
+
diff --git a/SPECS/policycoreutils.spec b/SPECS/policycoreutils.spec
index 79c55cd..4ef0cd6 100644
--- a/SPECS/policycoreutils.spec
+++ b/SPECS/policycoreutils.spec
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 Summary: SELinux policy core utilities
 Name:    policycoreutils
 Version: 2.9
-Release: 17%{?dist}
+Release: 18%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2
 # https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Releases
 Source0: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/releases/download/20190315/policycoreutils-2.9.tar.gz
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Patch0040: 0040-policycoreutils-setfiles-do-not-restrict-checks-agai.patch
 Patch0041: 0041-semodule-add-m-checksum-option.patch
 Patch0042: 0042-semodule-Fix-lang_ext-column-index.patch
 Patch0043: 0043-semodule-Don-t-forget-to-munmap-data.patch
+Patch0044: 0044-policycoreutils-Improve-error-message-when-selabel_o.patch
 
 Obsoletes: policycoreutils < 2.0.61-2
 Conflicts: filesystem < 3, selinux-policy-base < 3.13.1-138
@@ -520,6 +521,9 @@ The policycoreutils-restorecond package contains the restorecond service.
 %systemd_postun_with_restart restorecond.service
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 14 2022 Vit Mojzis <vmojzis@redhat.com> - 2.9-18
+- Improve error message when selabel_open fails (#1926511)
+
 * Tue Nov 30 2021 Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> - 2.9-17
 - semodule: add -m | --checksum option