[New-bugs-announce] [issue16690] Reference leak with custom tp_dealloc in PyType_FromSpec

[Bradley Froehle]

New submission from Bradley Froehle:

There is a reference leak when using PyType_FromSpec with custom tp_dealloc.  This was first noted in issue #15142, where a fix was given which only applies to types which do not override tp_dealloc.

For example, the xxlimited.Xxo type suffers from this:

Python 3.3.0 (default, Oct 26 2012, 11:06:17) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux
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>>> import xxlimited
>>> import sys
>>> Xxo = type(xxlimited.new())
>>> e = Xxo()
>>> sys.getrefcount(Xxo)
7
>>> e = Xxo()
>>> sys.getrefcount(Xxo)
8
>>> e = Xxo()
>>> sys.getrefcount(Xxo)
9

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 177527
nosy: bfroehle
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Reference leak with custom tp_dealloc in PyType_FromSpec
type: resource usage
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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