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@jelle-openai jelle-openai commented Oct 19, 2026 •
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  • Issue: Fix minor safety issues #159739

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pythongh-159739: Release replaced PyInitConfig strings
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Backport to 3.15 and 3.14.
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Fix minor safety issues #159739
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@gpshead gpshead self-assigned this Oct 19, 2026
@JelleZijlstra JelleZijlstra added needs backport to 3.14 bugs and security fixes needs backport to 3.15 bugs and security fixes labels Oct 19, 2026
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Thanks @jelle-openai for the PR, and @gpshead for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.14, 3.15.
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GH-159809 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.15 branch.
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GH-159810 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch.
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@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot removed the needs backport to 3.14 bugs and security fixes label Oct 19, 2026
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[3.15] gh-159739: Release replaced PyInitConfig strings (GH-159769) (#…
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…159809)

gh-159739: Release replaced PyInitConfig strings (GH-159769)

* gh-159739: Release replaced PyInitConfig strings

Backport to 3.15 and 3.14.

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(cherry picked from commit 395d766)

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <[email protected]>
gpshead pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 20, 2026
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[3.14] gh-159739: Release replaced PyInitConfig strings (GH-159769) (#…
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…159810)

gh-159739: Release replaced PyInitConfig strings (GH-159769)

* gh-159739: Release replaced PyInitConfig strings

Backport to 3.15 and 3.14.

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(cherry picked from commit 395d766)

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <[email protected]>
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Is it safe to call free(NULL) on all platforms supported by Python? It seems like free(NULL) is well defined as "do nothing" on Linux and FreeBSD.

Thanks for fixing the memory leak!
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@NekoAsakura NekoAsakura mentioned this pull request Oct 30, 2026
Null dereferencing of a pointer in initconfig.c #160962
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