diff --git a/valgrind-glibc-2.17.patch b/valgrind-glibc-2.17.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65b9198
--- /dev/null
+++ b/valgrind-glibc-2.17.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Index: valgrind-3.8.1/configure
+===================================================================
+--- valgrind-3.8.1.orig/configure
++++ valgrind-3.8.1/configure
+@@ -6604,6 +6604,16 @@ $as_echo "#define GLIBC_2_16 1" >>confde
+ 	DEFAULT_SUPP="glibc-2.34567-NPTL-helgrind.supp ${DEFAULT_SUPP}"
+ 	DEFAULT_SUPP="glibc-2.X-drd.supp ${DEFAULT_SUPP}"
+ 	;;
++     2.17)
++	{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: 2.16 family" >&5
++$as_echo "2.17 family" >&6; }
++
++$as_echo "#define GLIBC_2_17 1" >>confdefs.h
++
++	DEFAULT_SUPP="glibc-2.X.supp ${DEFAULT_SUPP}"
++	DEFAULT_SUPP="glibc-2.34567-NPTL-helgrind.supp ${DEFAULT_SUPP}"
++	DEFAULT_SUPP="glibc-2.X-drd.supp ${DEFAULT_SUPP}"
++    ;;
+      darwin)
+ 	{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: Darwin" >&5
+ $as_echo "Darwin" >&6; }
+@@ -6624,7 +6634,7 @@ $as_echo "#define BIONIC_LIBC 1" >>confd
+      *)
+ 	{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: unsupported version ${GLIBC_VERSION}" >&5
+ $as_echo "unsupported version ${GLIBC_VERSION}" >&6; }
+-	as_fn_error "Valgrind requires glibc version 2.2 - 2.16" "$LINENO" 5
++	as_fn_error "Valgrind requires glibc version 2.2 - 2.17" "$LINENO" 5
+ 	as_fn_error "or Darwin libc" "$LINENO" 5
+ 	;;
+ esac
diff --git a/valgrind.changes b/valgrind.changes
index d60e6c2..ef6beb5 100644
--- a/valgrind.changes
+++ b/valgrind.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec 31 09:12:06 UTC 2012 - idonmez@suse.com
+
+- Add valgrind-glibc-2.17.patch to fix compilation with glibc 2.17 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Oct  4 11:36:36 UTC 2012 - dmueller@suse.com
 
diff --git a/valgrind.spec b/valgrind.spec
index 8499c43..a9fc428 100644
--- a/valgrind.spec
+++ b/valgrind.spec
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 # svn  di svn://svn.valgrind.org/vex/tags/VEX_3_5_0 svn://svn.valgrind.org/vex/branches/VEX_3_5_BRANCH > VEX_3_5_BRANCH.diff
 Patch1:         jit-register-unregister.diff
 Patch2:         raise-segnames-limit.diff
+Patch3:         valgrind-glibc-2.17.patch
 # during building the major version of glibc is built into the suppression file
 %define glibc_main_version %(getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION | cut -d' ' -f2 | cut -d. -f1)
 %define glibc_major_version %(getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION | cut -d' ' -f2 | cut -d. -f2)
@@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ cd VEX
 cd ..
 %patch1
 %patch2
+%patch3 -p1
 
 %build
 %ifarch %arm