squidevil added the comment:
Martin Panter: You're right. The DECREF on v when itemfailed will decref the N
object and prevent the leak. My original analysis was wrong on that count.
You're right, do_mklist and do_mkdict (in 2.7.11 at least) have similar
problems, bailing after li
squidevil added the comment:
It looks like this patch is against the "default" cpython (3.x) branch. The
2.7 branch is missing the if(itemfailed) code in do_mktuple whose else clause
was modified by the patch.
It looks like some of this needs to be backpor
New submission from squidevil:
Expected behavior:
Calling Py_BuildValue with a 'N' argument should take ownership of the N
object, and on failure (returns NULL), call Py_DECREF() on any N argument. The
documentation explicitly says that this is the intended usage:
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