gh-81057: Fix a Reference Leak in the posix Module (gh-100140)

The leak was introduced in gh-100082.

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/81057

diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index f5175350e12aa62775a843c0765f5c1044994931..4817973262f4848d004c509429edd3504f0ef296 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -2242,6 +2242,7 @@ statresult_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
         return NULL;
     }
     _posixstate *state = get_posix_state(mod);
+    Py_DECREF(mod);
     if (state == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }