From a676ed72e5dfc5149a19ec5214aff42b2214788b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 06:05:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] gh-83004: Clean up refleak in _pickle initialisation
 (GH-98841) (cherry picked from commit
 d3b82b4463c4eb51954c0afd98342f0c5e479baa)

Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .../2022-11-02-05-53-25.gh-issue-83004.qc_KHr.rst   |  1 +
 Modules/_pickle.c                                   | 13 ++++++-------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-02-05-53-25.gh-issue-83004.qc_KHr.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-02-05-53-25.gh-issue-83004.qc_KHr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-02-05-53-25.gh-issue-83004.qc_KHr.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..de00063420638a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-02-05-53-25.gh-issue-83004.qc_KHr.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Clean up refleaks on failed module initialisation in in :mod:`_pickle`
diff --git a/Modules/_pickle.c b/Modules/_pickle.c
index b4b1dda199c23a..721079c91f5f2c 100644
--- a/Modules/_pickle.c
+++ b/Modules/_pickle.c
@@ -7998,16 +7998,15 @@ PyInit__pickle(void)
     if (st->UnpicklingError == NULL)
         return NULL;
 
-    Py_INCREF(st->PickleError);
-    if (PyModule_AddObject(m, "PickleError", st->PickleError) < 0)
+    if (PyModule_AddObjectRef(m, "PickleError", st->PickleError) < 0) {
         return NULL;
-    Py_INCREF(st->PicklingError);
-    if (PyModule_AddObject(m, "PicklingError", st->PicklingError) < 0)
+    }
+    if (PyModule_AddObjectRef(m, "PicklingError", st->PicklingError) < 0) {
         return NULL;
-    Py_INCREF(st->UnpicklingError);
-    if (PyModule_AddObject(m, "UnpicklingError", st->UnpicklingError) < 0)
+    }
+    if (PyModule_AddObjectRef(m, "UnpicklingError", st->UnpicklingError) < 0) {
         return NULL;
-
+    }
     if (_Pickle_InitState(st) < 0)
         return NULL;