diff --git a/src/shims/foreign_items/posix/macos.rs b/src/shims/foreign_items/posix/macos.rs
index 9f65d0f9c47d..9f6ea00b0313 100644
--- a/src/shims/foreign_items/posix/macos.rs
+++ b/src/shims/foreign_items/posix/macos.rs
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ pub trait EvalContextExt<'mir, 'tcx: 'mir>: crate::MiriEvalContextExt<'mir, 'tcx
                 let dtor = this.memory.get_fn(dtor)?.as_instance()?;
                 let data = this.read_scalar(args[1])?.not_undef()?;
                 let active_thread = this.get_active_thread()?;
-                this.machine.tls.set_global_dtor(active_thread, dtor, data)?;
+                this.machine.tls.set_thread_global_dtor(active_thread, dtor, data)?;
             }
 
             // Querying system information
diff --git a/src/shims/tls.rs b/src/shims/tls.rs
index 89ec16596599..c08ec78c136d 100644
--- a/src/shims/tls.rs
+++ b/src/shims/tls.rs
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ impl<'tcx> TlsData<'tcx> {
     /// implementation](https://github.com/opensource-apple/dyld/blob/195030646877261f0c8c7ad8b001f52d6a26f514/src/threadLocalVariables.c#L389):
     ///
     ///     // NOTE: this does not need locks because it only operates on current thread data
-    pub fn set_global_dtor(
+    pub fn set_thread_global_dtor(
         &mut self,
         thread: ThreadId,
         dtor: ty::Instance<'tcx>,