[Python-checkins] [3.8] bpo-40559: Add Py_DECREF to _asynciomodule.c:task_step_impl() (GH-19990)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0e4a5e96f011989736bde824ab817146bd7c9cfc
commit: 0e4a5e96f011989736bde824ab817146bd7c9cfc
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-05-08T04:28:38-07:00
summary:

[3.8] bpo-40559: Add Py_DECREF to _asynciomodule.c:task_step_impl() (GH-19990)

This fixes a possible memory leak in the C implementation of
asyncio.Task.
(cherry picked from commit d2c349b190bcba21a4a38e6520a48ad97a9f1529)

Co-authored-by: Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-05-08-12-51.bpo-40559.112wwa.rst
M Modules/_asynciomodule.c

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-05-08-12-51.bpo-40559.112wwa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-05-08-12-51.bpo-40559.112wwa.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..15846351f25bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-05-08-12-51.bpo-40559.112wwa.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix possible memory leak in the C implementation of :class:`asyncio.Task`.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Modules/_asynciomodule.c b/Modules/_asynciomodule.c
index 5ba2bc4975709..8e1cd4f52a540 100644
--- a/Modules/_asynciomodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_asynciomodule.c
@@ -2626,6 +2626,10 @@ task_step_impl(TaskObj *task, PyObject *exc)
     coro = task->task_coro;
     if (coro == NULL) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "uninitialized Task object");
+        if (clear_exc) {
+            /* We created 'exc' during this call */
+            Py_DECREF(exc);
+        }
         return NULL;
     }