[3.9] gh-108342: Break ref cycle in SSLSocket._create() exc (GH-108344) (#108351)
authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:10:49 +0000 (03:10 -0700)
committerRaspbian forward porter <root@raspbian.org>
Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:41:14 +0000 (09:41 +0000)
commit28b762baabc3d7afbd7acea763c73a0f385979ca
tree2f31b0b31cb2b8d509add796e95dfe8b6cde2419
parent5d992c5873bcdef5aba7e04ebb9fe48d55083bce
[3.9] gh-108342: Break ref cycle in SSLSocket._create() exc (GH-108344) (#108351)

Explicitly break a reference cycle when SSLSocket._create() raises an
exception. Clear the variable storing the exception, since the
exception traceback contains the variables and so creates a reference
cycle.

This test leak was introduced by the test added for the fix of GH-108310.
(cherry picked from commit 64f99350351bc46e016b2286f36ba7cd669b79e3)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Gbp-Pq: Name 0017-3.9-gh-108342-Break-ref-cycle-in-SSLSocket._create-e.patch
Lib/ssl.py