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
deleted file mode 100644
index bf7864e01a..0000000000
--- a/package/cifs-utils/0001-cldap_ping.c-add-missing-sys-types.h-include.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-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/cifs-utils.hash b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.hash
index 942f8aaa39..ea32d4dca7 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  a21123f76a4a6a36c9653189ba4918ebdf3cfcd3f9092730a47ff3450b5b5b2a  cifs-utils-7.1.tar.bz2
+sha256  c4e1eb5f4ad880d96e16d95a1cdbc7ec978ab51c5b6d8a20ae09dac638f36dd5  cifs-utils-7.3.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 e8eefde275..9c029342eb 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 7.1
+CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 7.3
 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+