diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_import.h b/Include/internal/pycore_import.h
index 3806e0d3cd0a95..55029abdd31b5a 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_import.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_import.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ extern int _PyImport_SetModuleString(const char *name, PyObject* module);
 
 extern void _PyImport_AcquireLock(PyInterpreterState *interp);
 extern void _PyImport_ReleaseLock(PyInterpreterState *interp);
+extern void _PyImport_ReInitLock(PyInterpreterState *interp);
 
 // This is used exclusively for the sys and builtins modules:
 extern int _PyImport_FixupBuiltin(
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-11-11-17-02-48.gh-issue-126688.QiOXUi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-11-11-17-02-48.gh-issue-126688.QiOXUi.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..30aa5722f0ea02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-11-11-17-02-48.gh-issue-126688.QiOXUi.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix a crash when calling :func:`os.fork` on some operating systems,
+including SerenityOS.
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 5edc9dcc7ff3e5..a09305c91ecbba 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -678,6 +678,7 @@ PyOS_AfterFork_Child(void)
     _PyEval_StartTheWorldAll(&_PyRuntime);
     _PyThreadState_DeleteList(list);
 
+    _PyImport_ReInitLock(tstate->interp);
     _PyImport_ReleaseLock(tstate->interp);
 
     _PySignal_AfterFork();
diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 1541d5a55b82ec..0f08e6dfc247bd 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -120,6 +120,13 @@ _PyImport_ReleaseLock(PyInterpreterState *interp)
     _PyRecursiveMutex_Unlock(&IMPORT_LOCK(interp));
 }
 
+void
+_PyImport_ReInitLock(PyInterpreterState *interp)
+{
+    // gh-126688: Thread id may change after fork() on some operating systems.
+    IMPORT_LOCK(interp).thread = PyThread_get_thread_ident_ex();
+}
+
 
 /***************/
 /* sys.modules */