From: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 06:34:23 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the curses module
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.1rc1~818^2^2~132
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2dabaf63cf165dce61edbd51edfa5510348371bf;p=python

Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the curses module

The refleak occurred when assigning to window.encoding.
---

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8046b7bf45..9babfd86a8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the curses module: window.encoding.
+
 - Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of BytesIO
   and StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has been closed.
   Patch by Alessandro Moura.
diff --git a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
index 3f9ca1313d..4e1449bf69 100644
--- a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
@@ -1938,6 +1938,7 @@ PyCursesWindow_set_encoding(PyCursesWindowObject *self, PyObject *value)
     if (ascii == NULL)
         return -1;
     encoding = strdup(PyBytes_AS_STRING(ascii));
+    Py_DECREF(ascii);
     if (encoding == NULL) {
         PyErr_NoMemory();
         return -1;