2011-10-24 Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>

        PR python/13310

	* python/py-param.c (call_doc_function): Correctly deference on
	function exit.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 6927bbd..cc266d4 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-10-24  Phil Muldoon  <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
+
+        PR python/13310
+
+       * python/py-param.c (call_doc_function): Correctly deference on
+       function exit.
+
 2011-10-21  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
 
        * ada-tasks.c (print_ada_task_info): Fix computation of

diff --git a/gdb/python/py-param.c b/gdb/python/py-param.c
index d68d8fb..fe31cd1 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/python/py-param.c
+++ b/gdb/python/py-param.c
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ call_doc_function (PyObject *obj, PyObject *method, PyObject *arg)
   if (gdbpy_is_string (result))
     {
       data = python_string_to_host_string (result);
+      Py_DECREF (result);
       if (! data)
        return NULL;
     }
@@ -338,6 +339,7 @@ call_doc_function (PyObject *obj, PyObject *method, PyObject *arg)
     {
       PyErr_SetString (PyExc_RuntimeError,
                       _("Parameter must return a string value."));
+      Py_DECREF (result);
       return NULL;
     }