fix corner cases in the management of server_hostname (closes #27773)

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1de23b5..4a0d84c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in _ssl.wrap_socket().
+
 - Issue #26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for
   subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.
 
diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c
index c21c0f8..391034e 100644
--- a/Modules/_ssl.c
+++ b/Modules/_ssl.c
@@ -487,7 +487,6 @@ newPySSLSocket(PySSLContext *sslctx, PySocketSockObject *sock,
 {
     PySSLSocket *self;
     SSL_CTX *ctx = sslctx->ctx;
-    PyObject *hostname;
     long mode;
 
     self = PyObject_New(PySSLSocket, &PySSLSocket_Type);
@@ -501,16 +500,16 @@ newPySSLSocket(PySSLContext *sslctx, PySocketSockObject *sock,
     self->shutdown_seen_zero = 0;
     self->handshake_done = 0;
     self->owner = NULL;
+    self->server_hostname = NULL;
     if (server_hostname != NULL) {
-        hostname = PyUnicode_Decode(server_hostname, strlen(server_hostname),
-                                   "idna", "strict");
+        PyObject *hostname = PyUnicode_Decode(server_hostname, strlen(server_hostname),
+                                              "idna", "strict");
         if (hostname == NULL) {
             Py_DECREF(self);
             return NULL;
         }
         self->server_hostname = hostname;
-    } else
-        self->server_hostname = NULL;
+    }
 
     Py_INCREF(sslctx);
 
@@ -563,7 +562,6 @@ newPySSLSocket(PySSLContext *sslctx, PySocketSockObject *sock,
         self->Socket = PyWeakref_NewRef((PyObject *) sock, NULL);
         if (self->Socket == NULL) {
             Py_DECREF(self);
-            Py_XDECREF(self->server_hostname);
             return NULL;
         }
     }