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-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 98147e8..8288f1e 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -1323,6 +1323,9 @@ int unicode_decode_call_errorhandler(const char *errors, PyObject **errorHandler
*input = PyBytes_AS_STRING(inputobj);
insize = PyBytes_GET_SIZE(inputobj);
*inend = *input + insize;
+ /* we can DECREF safely, as the exception has another reference,
+ so the object won't go away. */
+ Py_DECREF(inputobj);
if (newpos<0)
newpos = insize+newpos;