From 45219c6b8fd4bf593cd6a64ed77cd1837362e5b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Gokaslan <skylion.aaron@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:14:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: potential memory leak in pypy (#3774)

---
 include/pybind11/pybind11.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/pybind11/pybind11.h b/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
index 235fa7c11..e349bfdc9 100644
--- a/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
+++ b/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
@@ -2729,9 +2729,9 @@ get_type_override(const void *this_ptr, const type_info *this_type, const char *
                        d.ptr());
     if (result == nullptr)
         throw error_already_set();
+    Py_DECREF(result);
     if (d["self"].is_none())
         return function();
-    Py_DECREF(result);
 #endif
 
     return override;