diff --git a/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt b/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt
index ee9b776f79dd7444b0e989c3f506a0a808eed612..c8092d86bd4eab55b5cabf7a36014bd2c1f04f5e 100644
--- a/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ FetchContent_Declare(
   benchmark
   URL https://github.com/google/benchmark/archive/refs/tags/v1.9.2.tar.gz
   URL_HASH SHA256=409075176168dc46bbb81b74c1b4b6900385b5d16bfc181d678afb060d928bd3
+  # Patch error handling of getloadavg
+  PATCH_COMMAND cd <SOURCE_DIR> && patch --strip=1 --input=${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/patches/benchmark.patch
 )
 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(benchmark)
 
diff --git a/benchmark/patches/benchmark.patch b/benchmark/patches/benchmark.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1c449bb18f4e891c91623ac15415edb1a68dce5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/patches/benchmark.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Arm Limited and/or its affiliates <open-source-office@arm.com>
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+diff --git a/src/sysinfo.cc b/src/sysinfo.cc
+index c938b36..bf2fee8 100644
+--- a/src/sysinfo.cc
++++ b/src/sysinfo.cc
+@@ -850,11 +850,11 @@ std::vector<double> GetLoadAvg() {
+     !(defined(__ANDROID__) && __ANDROID_API__ < 29)
+   static constexpr int kMaxSamples = 3;
+   std::vector<double> res(kMaxSamples, 0.0);
+-  const size_t nelem = static_cast<size_t>(getloadavg(res.data(), kMaxSamples));
++  const auto nelem = getloadavg(res.data(), kMaxSamples);
+   if (nelem < 1) {
+     res.clear();
+   } else {
+-    res.resize(nelem);
++    res.resize(static_cast<size_t>(nelem));
+   }
+   return res;
+ #else