diff --git a/overlays/corectrl.nix b/overlays/corectrl.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1629a7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/overlays/corectrl.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+self: super: {
+  # copied from nixpkgs 94d828a5033b688af09b02983aad37ecf529bf3c to fix corectrl build failure on linux 6.6
+  # awaiting merge into unstable
+
+  corectrl = super.corectrl.overrideAttrs (old: rec {
+    version = "1.3.8";
+    src = self.fetchFromGitLab {
+      owner = "corectrl";
+      repo = "corectrl";
+      rev = "v${version}";
+      sha256 = "sha256-lc6yWzJiSzGKMzJIpgOtirJONsh49vXWDWrhLV/erwQ=";
+    };
+
+    patches = [ ./patches/corectrl.patch ];
+  });
+}
diff --git a/overlays/default.nix b/overlays/default.nix
index b906b57..d6c9151 100644
--- a/overlays/default.nix
+++ b/overlays/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 builtins.map (path: import path) [
   ./android-studio.nix
   ./ccache.nix
+  ./corectrl.nix
   ./discord.nix
   ./eww.nix
   ./material-icons.nix
diff --git a/overlays/patches/corectrl.patch b/overlays/patches/corectrl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..beaef3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/overlays/patches/corectrl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+diff --git a/src/helper/CMakeLists.txt b/src/helper/CMakeLists.txt
+index 3fe2ace..2542ea1 100644
+--- a/src/helper/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/helper/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -22,15 +22,7 @@ message("D-Bus files will be installed into ${DBUS_DATADIR_PREFIX_DIR}/dbus-1")
+ 
+ # Find polkit
+ pkg_check_modules(POLKIT REQUIRED polkit-gobject-1)
+-execute_process(
+-  COMMAND pkg-config --variable=policydir polkit-gobject-1
+-  RESULT_VARIABLE POLKIT_POLICY_INSTALL_DIR_RESULT
+-  OUTPUT_VARIABLE POLKIT_POLICY_INSTALL_DIR
+-  OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+-)
+-if(NOT POLKIT_POLICY_INSTALL_DIR_RESULT EQUAL "0")
+-  message(FATAL_ERROR "Failed to retrieve Polkit `policydir` variable using pkg-config")
+-endif()
++option(POLKIT_POLICY_INSTALL_DIR "Polkit policy directory")
+ 
+ list(APPEND HELPER_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS
+   ELPP_THREAD_SAFE