[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)
committerAndrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:45:10 +0000 (11:45 +0100)
commit1989a562de692dd88e252ede32c715c53e82016f
tree8caeff619bee9f1ee621be55d93be87904db25ba
parent35560ae81ecb4ed8ec0452dfc154e1a9a0cfbdef
[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