diff --git a/src/include/override/sys/generate-syscall.py b/src/include/override/sys/generate-syscall.py
index b58f1d6bcf..2a03623dbb 100644
--- a/src/include/override/sys/generate-syscall.py
+++ b/src/include/override/sys/generate-syscall.py
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ HEADER = '''\
 
 #include_next <sys/syscall.h>
 
+#ifdef ARCH_MIPS
+#include <asm/sgidefs.h>
+#endif
+
 #include <assert.h>
 '''
 
diff --git a/src/include/override/sys/syscall.h b/src/include/override/sys/syscall.h
index 894394a76b..f069e5f3c2 100644
--- a/src/include/override/sys/syscall.h
+++ b/src/include/override/sys/syscall.h
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 
 #include_next <sys/syscall.h>
 
+#ifdef ARCH_MIPS
+#include <asm/sgidefs.h>
+#endif
+
 #include <assert.h>
 
 /* Note: if this code looks strange, this is because it is derived from the same
diff --git a/src/shared/base-filesystem.c b/src/shared/base-filesystem.c
index 080e13a17a..bad3b46f3a 100644
--- a/src/shared/base-filesystem.c
+++ b/src/shared/base-filesystem.c
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 #include <syslog.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
+#ifdef ARCH_MIPS
+#include <asm/sgidefs.h>
+#endif
+
 #include "alloc-util.h"
 #include "base-filesystem.h"
 #include "errno-util.h"
diff --git a/src/shared/seccomp-util.c b/src/shared/seccomp-util.c
index 3c61f82371..5e82a12504 100644
--- a/src/shared/seccomp-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/seccomp-util.c
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 #include <sys/shm.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 
+#ifdef ARCH_MIPS
+#include <asm/sgidefs.h>
+#endif
+
 #include "af-list.h"
 #include "alloc-util.h"
 #include "env-util.h"