From 66042e180b1de4d4797d3ba16cf9b2fc53de18d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:01:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [3.12] gh-131762: Fixed dereferencing the pointer
 'parser_token->metadata' with a NULL value (GH-131764) (#131775)

gh-131762: Fixed dereferencing the pointer 'parser_token->metadata' with a NULL value (GH-131764)
(cherry picked from commit 2c686a9ac243800b630d4a09622c8eb789f5b354)

Co-authored-by: rialbat <47256826+rialbat@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 Parser/pegen.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Parser/pegen.c b/Parser/pegen.c
index 6ae9bef2160..5b92133d9f9 100644
--- a/Parser/pegen.c
+++ b/Parser/pegen.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ initialize_token(Parser *p, Token *parser_token, struct token *new_token, int to
     parser_token->metadata = NULL;
     if (new_token->metadata != NULL) {
         if (_PyArena_AddPyObject(p->arena, new_token->metadata) < 0) {
-            Py_DECREF(parser_token->metadata);
+            Py_DECREF(new_token->metadata);
             return -1;
         }
         parser_token->metadata = new_token->metadata;