diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/default.nix
index e32b31dc856..36e54b4686a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/default.nix
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = optional cupsSupport ./cups_allow_deprecated.patch
          ++ optional pulseSupport ./pulseaudio_array_bounds.patch
-         ++ maybeFixPulseAudioBuild;
+         ++ maybeFixPulseAudioBuild
+         ++ [ ./glibc-2.16-use-siginfo_t.patch ];
 
   postPatch = optionalString useOpenSSL ''
     cat $opensslPatches | patch -p1 -d third_party/openssl/openssl
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/glibc-2.16-use-siginfo_t.patch b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/glibc-2.16-use-siginfo_t.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d06555dda54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/glibc-2.16-use-siginfo_t.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+--- a/third_party/tcmalloc/chromium/src/base/linux_syscall_support.h.orig		2012-12-22 16:01:44.000000000 +0200
++++ b/third_party/tcmalloc/chromium/src/base/linux_syscall_support.h		2012-12-23 21:53:26.746069153 +0200
+@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@
+ struct kernel_old_sigaction {
+   union {
+     void             (*sa_handler_)(int);
+-    void             (*sa_sigaction_)(int, struct siginfo *, void *);
++    void             (*sa_sigaction_)(int, siginfo_t *, void *);
+   };
+   unsigned long      sa_mask;
+   unsigned long      sa_flags;
+@@ -287,13 +287,13 @@
+   unsigned long      sa_flags;
+   union {
+     void             (*sa_handler_)(int);
+-    void             (*sa_sigaction_)(int, struct siginfo *, void *);
++    void             (*sa_sigaction_)(int, siginfo_t *, void *);
+   };
+   struct kernel_sigset_t sa_mask;
+ #else
+   union {
+     void             (*sa_handler_)(int);
+-    void             (*sa_sigaction_)(int, struct siginfo *, void *);
++    void             (*sa_sigaction_)(int, siginfo_t *, void *);
+   };
+   unsigned long      sa_flags;
+   void               (*sa_restorer)(void);