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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-05-22-20-44.bpo-33231.3Jmo0q.rst1
-rw-r--r--Python/codecs.c2
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-05-22-20-44.bpo-33231.3Jmo0q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-05-22-20-44.bpo-33231.3Jmo0q.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de54fbb526
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-05-22-20-44.bpo-33231.3Jmo0q.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix potential memory leak in ``normalizestring()``.
diff --git a/Python/codecs.c b/Python/codecs.c
index 223ccca603..eb3cd35fb8 100644
--- a/Python/codecs.c
+++ b/Python/codecs.c
@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ PyObject *normalizestring(const char *string)
}
p[i] = '\0';
v = PyUnicode_FromString(p);
- if (v == NULL)
- return NULL;
PyMem_Free(p);
return v;
}