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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-05-01-00-42-08.bpo-36763.vghb86.rst2
-rw-r--r--Python/coreconfig.c7
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-05-01-00-42-08.bpo-36763.vghb86.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-05-01-00-42-08.bpo-36763.vghb86.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c34920
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-05-01-00-42-08.bpo-36763.vghb86.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix memory leak in :c:func:`Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding`: release memory if
+the function is called twice.
diff --git a/Python/coreconfig.c b/Python/coreconfig.c
index d05beef..471d512 100644
--- a/Python/coreconfig.c
+++ b/Python/coreconfig.c
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding(const char *encoding, const char *errors)
* Py_Initialize hasn't been called yet.
*/
if (encoding) {
+ PyMem_RawFree(_Py_StandardStreamEncoding);
_Py_StandardStreamEncoding = _PyMem_RawStrdup(encoding);
if (!_Py_StandardStreamEncoding) {
res = -2;
@@ -382,11 +383,11 @@ Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding(const char *encoding, const char *errors)
}
}
if (errors) {
+ PyMem_RawFree(_Py_StandardStreamErrors);
_Py_StandardStreamErrors = _PyMem_RawStrdup(errors);
if (!_Py_StandardStreamErrors) {
- if (_Py_StandardStreamEncoding) {
- PyMem_RawFree(_Py_StandardStreamEncoding);
- }
+ PyMem_RawFree(_Py_StandardStreamEncoding);
+ _Py_StandardStreamEncoding = NULL;
res = -3;
goto done;
}