From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:26:42 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-36430: Fix a possible reference leak in itertools.count(). (GH-12551)
X-Git-Tag: v3.7.4rc1~294
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0fe25be1ecbdf4abd1b0edd4aabacc4d75dec41;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-36430: Fix a possible reference leak in itertools.count(). (GH-12551)

(cherry picked from commit 0523c39e7720b82b38ad793d3f1a5681adcdf873)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-25-23-37-26.bpo-36430.sd9xxQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-25-23-37-26.bpo-36430.sd9xxQ.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a65ee096efc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-25-23-37-26.bpo-36430.sd9xxQ.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix a possible reference leak in :func:`itertools.count`.
diff --git a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
index 1113fb6b76c0..bff9df608304 100644
--- a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
@@ -4027,6 +4027,7 @@ count_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
     lz = (countobject *)type->tp_alloc(type, 0);
     if (lz == NULL) {
         Py_XDECREF(long_cnt);
+        Py_DECREF(long_step);
         return NULL;
     }
     lz->cnt = cnt;