From e4db1f05e9a5828f6b287f99067362fa0e5732e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eddie Elizondo <eelizondo@fb.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:07:37 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] closes bpo-38803: Fix leak in posixmodule. (GH-17373)

---
 Modules/posixmodule.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index f7386300c56..89854711373 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -7589,6 +7589,7 @@ wait_helper(pid_t pid, int status, struct rusage *ru)
 
     /* XXX(nnorwitz): Copied (w/mods) from resource.c, there should be only one. */
     result = PyStructSequence_New((PyTypeObject*) struct_rusage);
+    Py_DECREF(struct_rusage);
     if (!result)
         return NULL;