diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 606fce54..1fe4ff2b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ wine-staging (1.7.38) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Added patch to declare pDirectInputCreateEx in a MSVC compatible way (by Amine Khaldi, wine-patched/pull/5).
   * Added patch to complete and properly pack DNS_HEADER structure (by Amine Khaldi, wine-patched/pull/6).
   * Added patch to fix race-condition when threads are killed during shutdown.
+  * Added patch to avoid deadlock by using _exit() in NtTerminateProcess.
   * Removed patch to properly call DriverUnload when unloading device drivers (accepted upstream).
   * Removed patch to allow Accept-Encoding for HTTP/1.0 in wininet (accepted upstream).
   * Removed patch to declare pDirectInputCreateEx in a MSVC compatible way (accepted upstream).
diff --git a/patches/ntdll-Threading/0002-ntdll-Avoid-deadlock-by-using-_exit-in-NtTerminatePr.patch b/patches/ntdll-Threading/0002-ntdll-Avoid-deadlock-by-using-_exit-in-NtTerminatePr.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..14bd1fed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/ntdll-Threading/0002-ntdll-Avoid-deadlock-by-using-_exit-in-NtTerminatePr.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From c16a0e4ac4e504a66a3337c0487da33100aab0a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sebastian Lackner <sebastian@fds-team.de>
+Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:33:36 +0100
+Subject: ntdll: Avoid deadlock by using _exit() in NtTerminateProcess.
+
+Other threads are killed with SIGQUIT, so there is no guarantee that we can
+terminate properly with exit().
+---
+ dlls/ntdll/process.c | 7 ++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/dlls/ntdll/process.c b/dlls/ntdll/process.c
+index 3ac8d52..d20e107 100644
+--- a/dlls/ntdll/process.c
++++ b/dlls/ntdll/process.c
+@@ -21,11 +21,16 @@
+  * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
+  */
+ 
++#include "config.h"
++
+ #include <stdarg.h>
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <time.h>
++#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
++# include <unistd.h>
++#endif
+ 
+ #include "ntstatus.h"
+ #define WIN32_NO_STATUS
+@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ NTSTATUS WINAPI NtTerminateProcess( HANDLE handle, LONG exit_code )
+         self = !ret && reply->self;
+     }
+     SERVER_END_REQ;
+-    if (self && handle) exit( exit_code );
++    if (self && handle) _exit( exit_code );
+     return ret;
+ }
+ 
+-- 
+2.3.0
+
diff --git a/patches/patchinstall.sh b/patches/patchinstall.sh
index 209e2e02..e07143e9 100755
--- a/patches/patchinstall.sh
+++ b/patches/patchinstall.sh
@@ -2750,12 +2750,14 @@ fi
 # Patchset ntdll-Threading
 # |
 # | Modified files:
-# |   *	dlls/ntdll/thread.c
+# |   *	dlls/ntdll/process.c, dlls/ntdll/thread.c
 # |
 if test "$enable_ntdll_Threading" -eq 1; then
 	patch_apply ntdll-Threading/0001-ntdll-Fix-race-condition-when-threads-are-killed-dur.patch
+	patch_apply ntdll-Threading/0002-ntdll-Avoid-deadlock-by-using-_exit-in-NtTerminatePr.patch
 	(
 		echo '+    { "Sebastian Lackner", "ntdll: Fix race-condition when threads are killed during shutdown.", 1 },';
+		echo '+    { "Sebastian Lackner", "ntdll: Avoid deadlock by using _exit() in NtTerminateProcess.", 1 },';
 	) >> "$patchlist"
 fi