From 7a54a653b718a70c96755f6fc39f01f5c582558a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Galindo Salgado <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:54:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] gh-129271: Fix reference leak with unicode writer in fast
 path in the json module (#129272)

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

diff --git a/Modules/_json.c b/Modules/_json.c
index 091bcbfdced..31a5e935e13 100644
--- a/Modules/_json.c
+++ b/Modules/_json.c
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ scanstring_unicode(PyObject *pystr, Py_ssize_t end, int strict, Py_ssize_t *next
                 if (ret == NULL) {
                     goto bail;
                 }
+                PyUnicodeWriter_Discard(writer);
                 *next_end_ptr = next + 1;;
                 return ret;
             }