From 59242431991794064824cf2ab70886367613f29e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 08:19:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a potential reference-counting bug in long_pow (GH-26690)

---
 Objects/longobject.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Objects/longobject.c b/Objects/longobject.c
index 5e29e9a7257..d9127b31fd4 100644
--- a/Objects/longobject.c
+++ b/Objects/longobject.c
@@ -4185,6 +4185,7 @@ long_pow(PyObject *v, PyObject *w, PyObject *x)
                 goto Error;
             Py_DECREF(a);
             a = temp;
+            temp = NULL;
         }
 
         /* Reduce base by modulus in some cases: