diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 381c963d849a..768f8d26f4be 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pkgbase = ntfsplus-dkms-git
 	pkgdesc = A new NTFS driver for Linux promised to be better than NTFS3. These patches are directly taken from the maintainer's mailing list posts. Backported to 6.12.
-	pkgver = 2025.11.27.r8.3f937573c
+	pkgver = 2025.11.27.r8.2d25b83b1
 	pkgrel = 1
 	url = https://github.com/shadichy/ntfsplus-dkms
 	arch = any
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ pkgbase = ntfsplus-dkms-git
 	source = dkms.conf
 	source = 90-udev-prefer-ntfsplus.rules
 	sha256sums = SKIP
-	sha256sums = e848246d1cee6042c2bc8af1809b3cd348c2289749394ae363c8951cda69b32f
+	sha256sums = 868519f029a18eb0b563020386fc9ab55fc31ed611e19f2eb446894a2677d416
 	sha256sums = 4bdb0d5c97bd676ee077d9ffccbaf67eadf232b23c3e9fe060780df6420e9513
 	sha256sums = 78353b18ad7e37d390d79bc22f424a8042351e30eb01a17e4e7ffadafb6c7dce
 	sha256sums = f8dbf89bfa7891adcba1c9900a8b4f31c59a6e32bf3c4b1b290073eed048e8d9
diff --git a/0001-fs-ntfsplus-inode.c-Resolve-import-for-inode_generic.patch b/0001-fs-ntfsplus-inode.c-Resolve-import-for-inode_generic.patch
index 8fb8f8a421c7..e6ca1dffc4cd 100644
--- a/0001-fs-ntfsplus-inode.c-Resolve-import-for-inode_generic.patch
+++ b/0001-fs-ntfsplus-inode.c-Resolve-import-for-inode_generic.patch
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ index f577ef28b..fb5f40e19 100644
  
 +// Replace inode_generic_drop with generic_drop_inode
 +// for backward compatibility with pre 6.18 kernels
-+#ifndef inode_generic_drop
++#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(6, 18, 0)
 +#define inode_generic_drop generic_drop_inode
 +#endif
 +
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index d8a836ebafed..35d72fc0c1df 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 pkgbase=ntfsplus-dkms-git
 pkgname=("$pkgbase" "ntfsplus-udev")
-pkgver=2025.11.27.r8.3f937573c
+pkgver=2025.11.27.r8.2d25b83b1
 pkgrel=1
 # epoch=1
 pkgdesc="A new NTFS driver for Linux promised to be better than NTFS3. These patches are directly taken from the maintainer's mailing list posts. Backported to 6.12."
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ source=(
 )
 sha256sums=(
   SKIP
-  e848246d1cee6042c2bc8af1809b3cd348c2289749394ae363c8951cda69b32f
+  868519f029a18eb0b563020386fc9ab55fc31ed611e19f2eb446894a2677d416
   4bdb0d5c97bd676ee077d9ffccbaf67eadf232b23c3e9fe060780df6420e9513
   78353b18ad7e37d390d79bc22f424a8042351e30eb01a17e4e7ffadafb6c7dce
   f8dbf89bfa7891adcba1c9900a8b4f31c59a6e32bf3c4b1b290073eed048e8d9