closes bpo-38803: Fix leak in posixmodule. (GH-17373)

diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index f7386300c5691ac7f8be7a4625aa31c91b151cf0..898547113732a84eb3234f9cc0fe417b8788b9a7 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -7589,6 +7589,7 @@ wait_helper(pid_t pid, int status, struct rusage *ru)
 
     /* XXX(nnorwitz): Copied (w/mods) from resource.c, there should be only one. */
     result = PyStructSequence_New((PyTypeObject*) struct_rusage);
+    Py_DECREF(struct_rusage);
     if (!result)
         return NULL;