From 2ec36427cffba647b135e3791f84b12bd5872d92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brandt Bucher <brandtbucher@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 02:00:31 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-38823: Fix refleak in _tracemalloc init error handling
 (GH-17235) (cherry picked from commit
 d51a363a4379385fdfe9c09a56324631465ede29)

Co-authored-by: Brandt Bucher <brandtbucher@gmail.com>
---
 Modules/_tracemalloc.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Modules/_tracemalloc.c b/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
index 7f19c5598120e4..1fe72a8a4627b5 100644
--- a/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
+++ b/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
@@ -1655,8 +1655,10 @@ PyInit__tracemalloc(void)
     if (m == NULL)
         return NULL;
 
-    if (tracemalloc_init() < 0)
+    if (tracemalloc_init() < 0) {
+        Py_DECREF(m);
         return NULL;
+    }
 
     return m;
 }