From 21a41c915c83c8ca8b7ff8a78d920b85726223a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: adustman <adustman@9fc6cd9a-920d-0410-adcf-ac96716ed7e8>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:27:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a memory leak if the connect fails

---
 MySQLdb/_mysql.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MySQLdb/_mysql.c b/MySQLdb/_mysql.c
index e8ea0b8..0ec9492 100644
--- a/MySQLdb/_mysql.c
+++ b/MySQLdb/_mysql.c
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ _mysql_connect(
 	c = PyObject_NEW(_mysql_ConnectionObject,
 			 &_mysql_ConnectionObject_Type);
 	if (c == NULL) return NULL;
+	c->converter = NULL;
+	c->open = 0;
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwargs, "|ssssisOiiisss:connect",
 					 kwlist,
 					 &host, &user, &passwd, &db,
@@ -246,8 +248,10 @@ _mysql_connect(
 					 &connect_timeout,
 					 &compress, &named_pipe,
 					 &init_command, &read_default_file,
-					 &read_default_group))
+					 &read_default_group)) {
+		Py_DECREF(c);
 		return NULL;
+	}
 
 	if (!conv) 
 		conv = PyDict_New();
@@ -287,7 +291,6 @@ _mysql_connect(
 
 	if (!conn) {
 		_mysql_Exception(c);
-		c->open = 0;
 		Py_DECREF(c);
 		return NULL;
 	}