From b8e48931f972d868f80f9495dbb461d0843c76be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:28:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Fix segfault with error report in FITS compression"

This reverts commit 4de4877bc31602b073e88d3181c51bb3943c65ed.
---
 astropy/io/fits/hdu/compressed/src/compression.c | 3 ---
 docs/changes/io.fits/15489.bugfix.rst            | 1 -
 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 docs/changes/io.fits/15489.bugfix.rst

diff --git a/astropy/io/fits/hdu/compressed/src/compression.c b/astropy/io/fits/hdu/compressed/src/compression.c
index e3d9b656a0d3..bcedabec0a19 100644
--- a/astropy/io/fits/hdu/compressed/src/compression.c
+++ b/astropy/io/fits/hdu/compressed/src/compression.c
@@ -90,10 +90,7 @@ PyInit__compression(void)
 // cfitsio call.  In our wrapper functions we can then check if the Python error
 // state is set and then return NULL to raise the error.
 void ffpmsg(const char *err_message) {
-    PyGILState_STATE gstate;
-    gstate = PyGILState_Ensure();
     PyErr_SetString(CfitsioException, err_message);
-    PyGILState_Release(gstate);
 }
 
 /* PLIO/IRAF compression */
diff --git a/docs/changes/io.fits/15489.bugfix.rst b/docs/changes/io.fits/15489.bugfix.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index fa41152973b6..000000000000
--- a/docs/changes/io.fits/15489.bugfix.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix segfault with error report in tile decompression.