[3.14] gh-140530: fix a reference leak in an error path for raise exc from cause (GH-140908) (#141282)

gh-140530: fix a reference leak in an error path for `raise exc from cause` (GH-140908)

Fix a reference leak in `raise E from T` when `T` is an exception
subtype for which `T.__new__` does not return an exception instance.
(cherry picked from commit 0c77e7c23b)

Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -2108,6 +2108,7 @@ do_raise(PyThreadState *tstate, PyObject *exc, PyObject *cause)
"calling %R should have returned an instance of "
"BaseException, not %R",
cause, Py_TYPE(fixed_cause));
Py_DECREF(fixed_cause);
goto raise_error;
}
Py_DECREF(cause);