From 277f55cb04409ccdf651d43df5eb9dcb3ee3128c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 16:27:45 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] GH-94644: fix test_curses ref leak (GH-94647)

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

diff --git a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
index 7e2699e1b5c5bb..c10b2b302c6024 100644
--- a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ PyCurses_ConvertToString(PyCursesWindowObject *win, PyObject *obj,
             return 0;
         /* check for embedded null bytes */
         if (PyBytes_AsStringAndSize(*bytes, &str, NULL) < 0) {
+            Py_CLEAR(*bytes);
             return 0;
         }
         return 1;