[3.13] pythongh-140301: Fix memory leak in subinterpreter PyConfig cleanup (pythonGH-140303) (python#140684)

ashm-dev · kumaraditya303 · web-flow · commit fd6df6662459 · 2025-10-27T19:42:13.000Z
[3.13] pythongh-140301: Fix memory leak in subinterpreter `PyConfig` cleanup (pythonGH-140303) (cherry picked from commit a615fb4) Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <kumaraditya@python.org>
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2025-10-18-18-08-36.gh-issue-140301.m-2HxC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2025-10-18-18-08-36.gh-issue-140301.m-2HxC.rst
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+Fix memory leak of ``PyConfig`` in subinterpreters.
diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -985,6 +985,8 @@ PyInterpreterState_Delete(PyInterpreterState *interp)
 
     _PyObject_FiniState(interp);
 
+    PyConfig_Clear(&interp->config);
+
     free_interpreter(interp);
 }
 

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	`1`	+Fix memory leak of ``PyConfig`` in subinterpreters.
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`985`	`985`
`986`	`986`	`_PyObject_FiniState(interp);`
`987`	`987`
	`988`	`+ PyConfig_Clear(&interp->config);`
	`989`	`+`
`988`	`990`	`free_interpreter(interp);`
`989`	`991`	`}`
`990`	`992`