From: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:03:16 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Fix a refleak in _sre
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a4~51
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=baced5668a5d251b8838a657baa0f648aa6afd10;p=python

Fix a refleak in _sre
---

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ffd8433a7d..a0af8cdd59 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Fix a reference count leak in _sre.
+
 - Issue #19262: Initial check in of the 'asyncio' package (a.k.a. Tulip,
   a.k.a. PEP 3156).  There are no docs yet, and the PEP is slightly
   out of date with the code.  This module will have *provisional* status
diff --git a/Modules/_sre.c b/Modules/_sre.c
index 2b00121a25..0db4ebed71 100644
--- a/Modules/_sre.c
+++ b/Modules/_sre.c
@@ -2427,6 +2427,7 @@ next:
         else
             item = PyUnicode_Join(joiner, list);
         Py_DECREF(joiner);
+        Py_DECREF(list);
         if (!item)
             return NULL;
     }