From 3289209716011b21128f45de69f4a8e9d376c78e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Sweeney <36520290+sweeneyde@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 02:52:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix refleaks in PyErr_SetHandledException (GH-91627)

---
 Python/errors.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Python/errors.c b/Python/errors.c
index ce7785855b8..3eb8a5ef04d 100644
--- a/Python/errors.c
+++ b/Python/errors.c
@@ -520,9 +520,7 @@ PyErr_GetHandledException(void)
 void
 _PyErr_SetHandledException(PyThreadState *tstate, PyObject *exc)
 {
-    PyObject *oldexc = tstate->exc_info->exc_value;
-    tstate->exc_info->exc_value = Py_XNewRef(exc);
-    Py_XDECREF(oldexc);
+    Py_XSETREF(tstate->exc_info->exc_value, Py_XNewRef(exc));
 }
 
 void
@@ -543,6 +541,7 @@ void
 PyErr_SetExcInfo(PyObject *type, PyObject *value, PyObject *traceback)
 {
     PyErr_SetHandledException(value);
+    Py_XDECREF(value);
     /* These args are no longer used, but we still need to steal a ref */
     Py_XDECREF(type);
     Py_XDECREF(traceback);