diff --git a/lustre/autoconf/lustre-core.m4 b/lustre/autoconf/lustre-core.m4
index 7a628c065566ba3fa1bc24e68cf08a389964cf3a..02c3545532f0691f8e6bdc59eec902d31526615c 100644
--- a/lustre/autoconf/lustre-core.m4
+++ b/lustre/autoconf/lustre-core.m4
@@ -1779,6 +1779,9 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([inet_ntoa])
 # libsysio/src/readlink.c
 LC_READLINK_SSIZE_T
 
+# lvfs/prng.c
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/random.h])
+
 # utils/llverfs.c
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ext2fs/ext2fs.h])
 
diff --git a/lustre/lvfs/prng.c b/lustre/lvfs/prng.c
index b067338680487580a222537f2f116a3af5813dd5..5da435e1ad5224f2c8bfa1f15ec48b6c778bdf93 100644
--- a/lustre/lvfs/prng.c
+++ b/lustre/lvfs/prng.c
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 #define get_random_bytes(val, size)     (*val) = 0
 #endif
 #include <obd_class.h>
+#if defined(HAVE_LINUX_RANDOM_H)
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#endif
 
 /*
 From: George Marsaglia <geo@stat.fsu.edu>