diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
index 8808f502fb..e1a6b187f5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi/not-win32.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From 4f0da02754f86ec1aa38b2207872386b19605ec1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 948a108c78f9030d1f1ea87af62ccd257da4b82b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:22:50 +0000
 Subject: [PATCH] libffi: ensure sysroot paths are not in libffi.pc
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 826b453..54a41d8 100644
+index 63731dd..cd78322 100644
 --- a/configure.ac
 +++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(multi-os-directory,
+@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ done
  
  # These variables are only ever used when we cross-build to X86_WIN32.
  # And we only support this with GCC, so...
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.8.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.8.1.bb
similarity index 94%
rename from meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.8.0.bb
rename to meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.8.1.bb
index 583b143157..318cc7ef46 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.8.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.8.1.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5e9a8df556846bb3d1edec0d968a2311"
 SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://not-win32.patch \
            "
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7da3e2d9a171eb0a038f592ecad3ff2bb2550f3496d87b3b29ad0cf4430c0db4"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "81e879c094cc5ec3186c48510c6385ac6b3e866192e8bc71a35245703757ee40"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-builddir"
 EXTRA_OECONF:class-native += "--with-gcc-arch=generic"