From f3fc956d5260e0050c5044cb80e262b2104d0394 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Hawkins <phawkins@google.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:02:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix reference count leak in str(scalar).

PyArray_DescrFromTypeObject() returns a fresh reference to the descriptor object, which must be freed.

This leak was introduced in
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/670842b38005febf64259f268332e46d86233ef0
---
 numpy/core/src/multiarray/scalartypes.c.src | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/scalartypes.c.src b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/scalartypes.c.src
index fe753f64b1e8..02f3223e7f68 100644
--- a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/scalartypes.c.src
+++ b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/scalartypes.c.src
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ genint_type_str(PyObject *self)
             item = gentype_generic_method(self, NULL, NULL, "item");
             break;
     }
+    Py_DECREF(descr);
     if (item == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }