From ed4945976bef6d7493878a875312696c67f3c015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:48:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix unlikely ptential reference leak in
 _locale._getdefaultlocale

It occurs in a code which perhaps never executed.
---
 Modules/_localemodule.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Modules/_localemodule.c b/Modules/_localemodule.c
index 7174eebd0c94de..f0a418ee5024e3 100644
--- a/Modules/_localemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_localemodule.c
@@ -567,7 +567,6 @@ _locale__getdefaultlocale_impl(PyObject *module)
     }
 
     /* cannot determine the language code (very unlikely) */
-    Py_INCREF(Py_None);
     return Py_BuildValue("Os", Py_None, encoding);
 }
 #endif