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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Objects/structseq.c1
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0bfbd3861a..ba09480640 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.3?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
+ fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
+
- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
diff --git a/Objects/structseq.c b/Objects/structseq.c
index 58e15cb862..dcc5457a2d 100644
--- a/Objects/structseq.c
+++ b/Objects/structseq.c
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ structseq_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
res = (PyStructSequence*) PyStructSequence_New(type);
if (res == NULL) {
+ Py_DECREF(arg);
return NULL;
}
for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {