Fix T72894: Mantaflow: several crashes due to null pointers

Incorporated LazyDodo's suggestions from the task.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/intern/mantaflow/intern/MANTA_main.cpp b/intern/mantaflow/intern/MANTA_main.cpp
index 79363126aff..a1851da711a 100644
--- a/intern/mantaflow/intern/MANTA_main.cpp
+++ b/intern/mantaflow/intern/MANTA_main.cpp
@@ -2057,7 +2057,10 @@ static char *pyObjectToString(PyObject *inputObject)
 
   PyObject *encoded = PyUnicode_AsUTF8String(inputObject);
   char *result = PyBytes_AsString(encoded);
-  Py_DECREF(encoded);
+
+  /* Do not decref (i.e. Py_DECREF(encoded)) of string 'encoded' PyObject.
+   * Otherwise those objects will be invalidated too early (see T72894).
+   * Reference count of those Python objects will be decreased with 'del' in Python scripts. */
   Py_DECREF(inputObject);
 
   PyGILState_Release(gilstate);