diff --git a/Include/pystate.h b/Include/pystate.h
index 729342ccbd1..b9fe61e7210 100644
--- a/Include/pystate.h
+++ b/Include/pystate.h
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_Clear(PyThreadState *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_Delete(PyThreadState *);
 #ifdef WITH_THREAD
 PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent(void);
-PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyGILState_Reinit(void);
 #endif
 
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) PyThreadState_Get(void);
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 385050537ff..4c573480d4e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -61,10 +61,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
-  APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5.  Patch
-  by Charles-François Natali.
-
 - Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
   strings are too long.
 
diff --git a/Modules/signalmodule.c b/Modules/signalmodule.c
index 6f021e72e0a..f306bba16f5 100644
--- a/Modules/signalmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/signalmodule.c
@@ -976,7 +976,6 @@ void
 PyOS_AfterFork(void)
 {
 #ifdef WITH_THREAD
-    _PyGILState_Reinit();
     PyEval_ReInitThreads();
     main_thread = PyThread_get_thread_ident();
     main_pid = getpid();
diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
index 3eefa36a26c..ddb7d425898 100644
--- a/Python/pystate.c
+++ b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -537,23 +537,6 @@ _PyGILState_Fini(void)
     autoInterpreterState = NULL;
 }
 
-/* Reset the TLS key - called by PyOS_AfterFork.
- * This should not be necessary, but some - buggy - pthread implementations
- * don't flush TLS on fork, see issue #10517.
- */
-void
-_PyGILState_Reinit(void)
-{
-    PyThreadState *tstate = PyGILState_GetThisThreadState();
-    PyThread_delete_key(autoTLSkey);
-    if ((autoTLSkey = PyThread_create_key()) == -1)
-        Py_FatalError("Could not allocate TLS entry");
-
-    /* re-associate the current thread state with the new key */
-    if (PyThread_set_key_value(autoTLSkey, (void *)tstate) < 0)
-        Py_FatalError("Couldn't create autoTLSkey mapping");
-}
-
 /* When a thread state is created for a thread by some mechanism other than
    PyGILState_Ensure, it's important that the GILState machinery knows about
    it so it doesn't try to create another thread state for the thread (this is