From c6249a6268ed4f191c01b28fa5c04417454d6625 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 10:44:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Defer deleted item decref until after the deque is restored
 to a consistent state.

---
 Misc/NEWS                    |  4 ++++
 Modules/_collectionsmodule.c | 12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c52ad729eb8..9eaaf58155d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ Library
 - Issues #24099, #24100, and #24101: Fix free-after-use bug in heapq's siftup
   and siftdown functions.
 
+- Backport collections.deque fixes from Python 3.5.  Prevents reentrant badness
+  during deletion by deferring the decref until the container has been restored
+  to a consistent state.
+
 - Issue #23008: Fixed resolving attributes with boolean value is False in pydoc.
 
 - Fix asyncio issue 235: LifoQueue and PriorityQueue's put didn't
diff --git a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
index c1aa9a30bcd..627fad57539 100644
--- a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
@@ -698,9 +698,9 @@ deque_remove(dequeobject *deque, PyObject *value)
         if (cmp > 0) {
             PyObject *tgt = deque_popleft(deque, NULL);
             assert (tgt != NULL);
-            Py_DECREF(tgt);
-            if (_deque_rotate(deque, i) == -1)
+            if (_deque_rotate(deque, i))
                 return NULL;
+            Py_DECREF(tgt);
             Py_RETURN_NONE;
         }
         else if (cmp < 0) {
@@ -781,16 +781,16 @@ static int
 deque_del_item(dequeobject *deque, Py_ssize_t i)
 {
     PyObject *item;
+    int rv;
 
     assert (i >= 0 && i < Py_SIZE(deque));
-    if (_deque_rotate(deque, -i) == -1)
+    if (_deque_rotate(deque, -i))
         return -1;
-
     item = deque_popleft(deque, NULL);
+    rv = _deque_rotate(deque, i);
     assert (item != NULL);
     Py_DECREF(item);
-
-    return _deque_rotate(deque, i);
+    return rv;
 }
 
 static int