diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/0001-cldap_ping.c-add-missing-sys-types.h-include.patch b/package/cifs-utils/0001-cldap_ping.c-add-missing-sys-types.h-include.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf7864e01a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/0001-cldap_ping.c-add-missing-sys-types.h-include.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+From 62297e906149f9d2ca7b187a60f7c5ab99ef5dd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
+Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:39:05 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] cldap_ping.c: add missing <sys/types.h> include
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Fixes:
+
+cldap_ping.c: In function ‘read_dns_string’:
+cldap_ping.c:72:37: error: ‘u_char’ undeclared (first use in this function)
+
+when building with the musl C library, but even with glibc u_char is
+defined in <sys/types.h>, it happens to work with glibc <sys/types.h>
+gets included by another header.
+
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
+Upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/20241226204235.2311371-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com/
+---
+ cldap_ping.c | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/cldap_ping.c b/cldap_ping.c
+index 9183b27..a603be3 100644
+--- a/cldap_ping.c
++++ b/cldap_ping.c
+@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
+ #include <talloc.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <sys/socket.h>
++#include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <arpa/inet.h>
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ #include <resolv.h>
+-- 
+2.47.0
+
diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/Config.in b/package/cifs-utils/Config.in
index d1b1406a3e..6813e3637d 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/Config.in
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/Config.in
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
+comment "cifs-utils needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
+	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_CIFS_UTILS
 	bool "cifs-utils"
-	# uses fork()
+	# uses fork(), libtalloc
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # libtalloc
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTALLOC
 	help
 	  The in-kernel CIFS filesystem is generally the preferred
 	  method for mounting SMB/CIFS shares on Linux. The in-kernel
diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.hash b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.hash
index ec6ea55961..942f8aaa39 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.hash
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256  a7b6940e93250c1676a6fa66b6ead91b78cd43a5fee99cc462459c8b9cf1e6f4  cifs-utils-6.15.tar.bz2
+sha256  a21123f76a4a6a36c9653189ba4918ebdf3cfcd3f9092730a47ff3450b5b5b2a  cifs-utils-7.1.tar.bz2
 
 # Hash for license file:
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
index edf08d4b4d..e8eefde275 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 6.15
+CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 7.1
 CIFS_UTILS_SOURCE = cifs-utils-$(CIFS_UTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2
 CIFS_UTILS_SITE = http://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils
 CIFS_UTILS_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CIFS_UTILS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 CIFS_UTILS_CPE_ID_VENDOR = samba
 # Missing install-sh in release tarball
 CIFS_UTILS_AUTORECONF = YES
-CIFS_UTILS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
+CIFS_UTILS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libtalloc
 
 # Let's disable PIE unconditionally. We want PIE to be enabled only by
 # the global BR2_RELRO_FULL option.