diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5438245ba4c..e6948d70e21 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting
+  math.factorial.
+
 - Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
 
 - Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
diff --git a/Modules/mathmodule.c b/Modules/mathmodule.c
index 2c4cc7331b7..142eca468a2 100644
--- a/Modules/mathmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/mathmodule.c
@@ -1330,14 +1330,13 @@ factorial_odd_part(unsigned long n)
         Py_DECREF(outer);
         outer = tmp;
     }
-
-    goto done;
+    Py_DECREF(inner);
+    return outer;
 
   error:
     Py_DECREF(outer);
-  done:
     Py_DECREF(inner);
-    return outer;
+    return NULL;
 }
 
 /* Lookup table for small factorial values */