[3.14] Fix unlikely potential reference leak in _locale._getdefaultlocale (GH-145250) (GH-145302)

miss-islington · serhiy-storchaka · web-flow · commit 86c846735b7f · 2026-02-27T08:31:11.000Z
It occurs in a code which perhaps never executed. (cherry picked from commit 6ea84b2) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Modules/_localemodule.c b/Modules/_localemodule.c
@@ -579,7 +579,6 @@ _locale__getdefaultlocale_impl(PyObject *module)
     }
 
     /* cannot determine the language code (very unlikely) */
-    Py_INCREF(Py_None);
     return Py_BuildValue("Os", Py_None, encoding);
 }
 #endif

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -579,7 +579,6 @@ _locale__getdefaultlocale_impl(PyObject *module)`
`579`	`579`	`}`
`580`	`580`
`581`	`581`	`/* cannot determine the language code (very unlikely) */`
`582`		`- Py_INCREF(Py_None);`
`583`	`582`	`return Py_BuildValue("Os", Py_None, encoding);`
`584`	`583`	`}`
`585`	`584`	`#endif`