From 666db5eb28adceaba5bcc6cdbb0be2709d058298 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Murray <radarhere@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:20:45 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Decref PyDict_GetItemRef result

---
 src/encode.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/encode.c b/src/encode.c
index dbfd841b3ef..864616b6eb5 100644
--- a/src/encode.c
+++ b/src/encode.c
@@ -799,6 +799,7 @@ PyImaging_LibTiffEncoderNew(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
                 if (type_int >= TIFF_BYTE && type_int <= TIFF_LONG8) {
                     type = (TIFFDataType)type_int;
                 }
+                Py_DECREF(tag_type);
             }
         }