From eac5af1be4b05b2700d3f090b892ebe891b97d86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:36:18 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] gh-142595: Amend be5e0dcdedb (fix NULL pointer dereference)

---
 Modules/_decimal/_decimal.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Modules/_decimal/_decimal.c b/Modules/_decimal/_decimal.c
index 6ed8c0f3beb277..e183c70653b0d4 100644
--- a/Modules/_decimal/_decimal.c
+++ b/Modules/_decimal/_decimal.c
@@ -7753,8 +7753,9 @@ _decimal_exec(PyObject *m)
 
     /* DecimalTuple */
     ASSIGN_PTR(collections, PyImport_ImportModule("collections"));
-    obj = PyObject_CallMethod(collections, "namedtuple", "(ss)", "DecimalTuple",
-                              "sign digits exponent");
+    ASSIGN_PTR(obj, PyObject_CallMethod(collections, "namedtuple", "(ss)",
+                                        "DecimalTuple",
+                                        "sign digits exponent"));
     if (!PyType_Check(obj)) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
                         "type is expected from namedtuple call");