MAINT: Do not steal reference in zerofill on error

This fixes the path that caused a double decref in one of the
error paths.
(This was de-facto unreachable of course, since zero-filling should
never actually fail.)

Closes gh-19859

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/common.c b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/common.c
index aa612146c..da8d23a26 100644
--- a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/common.c
+++ b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/common.c
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ _zerofill(PyArrayObject *ret)
         PyArray_FillObjectArray(ret, zero);
         Py_DECREF(zero);
         if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
-            Py_DECREF(ret);
             return -1;
         }
     }
diff --git a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/getset.c b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/getset.c
index eb55e5e61..ab35548ed 100644
--- a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/getset.c
+++ b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/getset.c
@@ -808,6 +808,7 @@ array_imag_get(PyArrayObject *self, void *NPY_UNUSED(ignored))
             return NULL;
         }
         if (_zerofill(ret) < 0) {
+            Py_DECREF(ret);
             return NULL;
         }
         PyArray_CLEARFLAGS(ret, NPY_ARRAY_WRITEABLE);