diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.12/common.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.12/common.nix
index 164929b5fcb..1351df29f57 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.12/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.12/common.nix
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
     /* Allow nixos and nix handle the locale-archive. */
     ./nix-locale-archive.patch
 
-    /* Patch already sent upstream against a segafult on libpthread load */
-    ./libpthread_init.patch
-
     /* Fix for a vulnerability, taken from upstream */
     ./audit_suid.patch
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.12/libpthread_init.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.12/libpthread_init.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ce2e6f846e..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.12/libpthread_init.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12123
-
-diff --git a/nptl/sysdeps/i386/Makefile b/nptl/sysdeps/i386/Makefile
-index 2f0d88f..3d9d223 100644
---- a/nptl/sysdeps/i386/Makefile
-+++ b/nptl/sysdeps/i386/Makefile
-@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ gen-as-const-headers += tcb-offsets.sym
- endif
- 
- ifeq ($(subdir),nptl)
-+CFLAGS-nptl-init.c += -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4
-+CFLAGS-pt-initfini.c += -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4
- CFLAGS-pthread_create.c += -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4
- CFLAGS-tst-align.c += -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4
- CFLAGS-tst-align2.c += -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4