[3.14] gh-151773: Fix NULL dereference in `PyContextVar_Set` (GH-151836) (#152010)

gh-151773: Fix NULL dereference in `PyContextVar_Set` (GH-151836)
(cherry picked from commit d35b1719a58c8682a22ef698e070e97661af8d14)

Co-authored-by: dev <b.chouksey27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-21-16-00-00.gh-issue-151773.mN4kRt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-21-16-00-00.gh-issue-151773.mN4kRt.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..b4193c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-21-16-00-00.gh-issue-151773.mN4kRt.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix a crash in :func:`contextvars.ContextVar.set` when memory allocation
+fails.

diff --git a/Python/context.c b/Python/context.c
index 0715612fbe79eb9a67f0be317fd5758db8f7cfde..9cec2eec1893910b07fdafc7ee760b939e53ba26 100644 (file)
--- a/Python/context.c
+++ b/Python/context.c
@@ -357,6 +357,9 @@ PyContextVar_Set(PyObject *ovar, PyObject *val)
     Py_XINCREF(old_val);
     PyContextToken *tok = token_new(ctx, var, old_val);
     Py_XDECREF(old_val);
+    if (tok == NULL) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
 
     if (contextvar_set(var, val)) {
         Py_DECREF(tok);