diff --git a/qt/PKGBUILD b/qt/PKGBUILD
index 5b0890e98..d65b5c704 100644
--- a/qt/PKGBUILD
+++ b/qt/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 pkgbase=qt
 pkgname=('qt' 'qt-private-headers')
 pkgver=4.8.1
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url='http://qt.nokia.com/'
 license=('GPL3' 'LGPL')
@@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ options=('!libtool')
 _pkgfqn="qt-everywhere-opensource-src-${pkgver}"
 source=("ftp://ftp.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/${_pkgfqn}.tar.gz"
         'assistant.desktop' 'designer.desktop' 'linguist.desktop'
-        'qtconfig.desktop')
+        'qtconfig.desktop' 'fix-qtextlayout.diff')
 md5sums=('7960ba8e18ca31f0c6e4895a312f92ff'
          'fc211414130ab2764132e7370f8e5caa'
          '85179f5e0437514f8639957e1d8baf62'
          'f11852b97583610f3dbb669ebc3e21bc'
-         '6b771c8a81dd90b45e8a79afa0e5bbfd')
+         '6b771c8a81dd90b45e8a79afa0e5bbfd'
+         'b1ab0cca222178bbe2ee010f59ac0277')
 
 # source PKGBUILD && _create-kdeqt-patch
 _create-kdeqt-patch() {
@@ -52,6 +53,9 @@ build() {
 #	  sed -i -e 's/^.*kde-qt .*/        echo "   kde-qt '${kdeqtver}'"/' $startdir/qt.install
 #	fi
 
+	msg "Applying fixes..."
+	patch -Np1 -i ${srcdir}/fix-qtextlayout.diff
+
         export QT4DIR="${srcdir}"/${_pkgfqn}
         export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${QT4DIR}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
 
diff --git a/qt/fix-qtextlayout.diff b/qt/fix-qtextlayout.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7b41e6838
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qt/fix-qtextlayout.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From cac12f4592477d99ef6fffaad40345bf85ef53b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jiang Jiang <jiang.jiang@nokia.com>
+Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:32:05 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix a crash in cursorToX() when new block is added
+
+When an empty new block is being added, the layoutData->memory data
+will be 0, thus QTextEngine::attributes() will return 0. We should
+only access the attributes pointer when some text actually exist.
+
+Task-number: QTBUG-24718
+Change-Id: I9ce9f7b57bccf24099a02832ce30fb6cebfaad33
+---
+ src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp |    4 ++++
+ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp b/src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp
+index ee658d9..16f7150 100644
+--- a/src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp
++++ b/src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp
+@@ -2508,6 +2508,10 @@ qreal QTextLine::cursorToX(int *cursorPos, Edge edge) const
+     int pos = *cursorPos;
+     int itm;
+     const HB_CharAttributes *attributes = eng->attributes();
++    if (!attributes) {
++        *cursorPos = 0;
++        return x.toReal();
++    }
+     while (pos < line.from + line.length && !attributes[pos].charStop)
+         pos++;
+     if (pos == line.from + (int)line.length) {
+-- 
+1.7.7.4
+