https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/998587cd74f1d34dd7759ed0c85c622e9969e711
commit: 998587cd74f1d34dd7759ed0c85c622e9969e711
branch: 3.13
author: Donghee Na <[email protected]>
committer: corona10 <[email protected]>
date: 2026-06-26T12:35:30Z
summary:

[3.13] gh-152235: Defer GC tracking of set and frozenset to end of 
connstruction (gh-152272)

[3.13] gh-152235: Defer GC tracking of set and frozenset to end of construction 
(gh-152237)
(cherry picked from commit 908f438e198a753d40d1166b5f8725e650a9ed6e)

files:
A 
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-26-05-49-13.gh-issue-152235.YU20T9.rst
M Objects/setobject.c

diff --git 
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-26-05-49-13.gh-issue-152235.YU20T9.rst
 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-26-05-49-13.gh-issue-152235.YU20T9.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..8d386ad458dfff
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-26-05-49-13.gh-issue-152235.YU20T9.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Defer GC tracking of a :class:`set` or :class:`frozenset` to the end of its
+construction from iterable. Patch by Donghee Na.
diff --git a/Objects/setobject.c b/Objects/setobject.c
index 0743870cec859c..e00ed6a38c9699 100644
--- a/Objects/setobject.c
+++ b/Objects/setobject.c
@@ -1086,7 +1086,9 @@ make_new_set(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *iterable)
     assert(PyType_Check(type));
     PySetObject *so;
 
-    so = (PySetObject *)type->tp_alloc(type, 0);
+    // Allocate untracked: the fill below runs user code, and a half-built
+    // set must not be reachable from another thread via gc.get_objects().
+    so = (PySetObject *)_PyType_AllocNoTrack(type, 0);
     if (so == NULL)
         return NULL;
 
@@ -1105,6 +1107,8 @@ make_new_set(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *iterable)
         }
     }
 
+    // Track only once fully built.
+    _PyObject_GC_TRACK(so);
     return (PyObject *)so;
 }
 
@@ -2499,7 +2503,7 @@ PyTypeObject PySet_Type = {
     0,                                  /* tp_descr_set */
     0,                                  /* tp_dictoffset */
     (initproc)set_init,                 /* tp_init */
-    PyType_GenericAlloc,                /* tp_alloc */
+    _PyType_AllocNoTrack,               /* tp_alloc */
     set_new,                            /* tp_new */
     PyObject_GC_Del,                    /* tp_free */
     .tp_vectorcall = set_vectorcall,
@@ -2590,7 +2594,7 @@ PyTypeObject PyFrozenSet_Type = {
     0,                                  /* tp_descr_set */
     0,                                  /* tp_dictoffset */
     0,                                  /* tp_init */
-    PyType_GenericAlloc,                /* tp_alloc */
+    _PyType_AllocNoTrack,               /* tp_alloc */
     frozenset_new,                      /* tp_new */
     PyObject_GC_Del,                    /* tp_free */
     .tp_vectorcall = frozenset_vectorcall,

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