diff --git a/batctl/Makefile b/batctl/Makefile
index ba83914..29b6460 100644
--- a/batctl/Makefile
+++ b/batctl/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 PKG_NAME:=batctl
 
 PKG_VERSION:=2018.1
-PKG_RELEASE:=4
+PKG_RELEASE:=5
 PKG_HASH:=27877d0da6916f88a6cecbbb3f3d23cc4558ef7c7294324bf4fd050ed606b553
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
diff --git a/batctl/patches/0005-batctl-Don-t-stop-when-create_interface-detected-exi.patch b/batctl/patches/0005-batctl-Don-t-stop-when-create_interface-detected-exi.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1458bf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/batctl/patches/0005-batctl-Don-t-stop-when-create_interface-detected-exi.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
+Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:38:31 +0100
+Subject: batctl: Don't stop when create_interface detected existing interface
+
+"batctl meshif bat0 interface add ..." should never be called in parallel.
+But when something still does this, it could be that the code first detects
+the missing meshif and then tries to create it - which fails when another
+process requested the creation of the same interface slightly before batctl
+did it.
+
+But this should not prevent batctl to add the lower interface to the
+meshif. It is not really important that the batctl process was the one
+which created it - only that it exists is important.
+
+Fixes: 25022e0b154d ("batctl: Use rtnl to add/remove interfaces")
+Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
+Origin: upstream, https://git.open-mesh.org/batctl.git/commit/5d465bfd9a19c4bda20fb4e36c6e4b22c56ceb17
+
+diff --git a/interface.c b/interface.c
+index 1ad36826fdb91a3e0254ed4dec758e7c383596e9..ac95641953f76d77ef91bf77bb7a086a673c1dd2 100644
+--- a/interface.c
++++ b/interface.c
+@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ int interface(char *mesh_iface, int argc, char **argv)
+ 	ifmaster = if_nametoindex(mesh_iface);
+ 	if (!manual_mode && !ifmaster && rest_argv[0][0] == 'a') {
+ 		ret = create_interface(mesh_iface);
+-		if (ret < 0) {
++		if (ret < 0 && ret != -EEXIST) {
+ 			fprintf(stderr,
+ 				"Error - failed to create batman-adv interface: %s\n",
+ 				strerror(-ret));