From: Pablo Galindo Salgado <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:38:57 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bpo-24076: Fix reference in sum() introduced by GH-28469 (GH-28493)
X-Git-Tag: v3.11.0a1~101
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c7e98dc258a0e7ccd2325a1aefc4aa2de51e1c5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-24076: Fix reference in sum() introduced by GH-28469 (GH-28493)
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diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index 38bdfb2766f3..d0d31805b301 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -2484,7 +2484,8 @@ builtin_sum_impl(PyObject *module, PyObject *iterable, PyObject *start)
                 /* Single digits are common, fast, and cannot overflow on unpacking. */
                 switch (Py_SIZE(item)) {
                     case -1: b = -(sdigit) ((PyLongObject*)item)->ob_digit[0]; break;
-                    case  0: continue;
+                    // Note: the continue goes to the top of the "while" loop that iterates over the elements
+                    case  0: Py_DECREF(item); continue; 
                     case  1: b = ((PyLongObject*)item)->ob_digit[0]; break;
                     default: b = PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow(item, &overflow); break;
                 }