https://bugs.gentoo.org/913019
https://github.com/brltty/brltty/commit/e6707d5e094dc36db4319ce4d052a6ad568a5d26

From e6707d5e094dc36db4319ce4d052a6ad568a5d26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:29:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] brlapi: Fix python crash on connection error
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From Lukáš Tyrychtr:
“
Cython 3.0 started using the new Python object finalization APIs from PEP 442
”

This means that __del__ gets called even when raising an exception from
__init__, while it was not before. To cope with both behaviors, we can
set self.h to NULL to determine whether it still exists or not.

Thanks Lukáš Tyrychtr for the investigation and patch draft!
--- a/Bindings/Python/brlapi.pyx
+++ b/Bindings/Python/brlapi.pyx
@@ -453,6 +453,7 @@ cdef class Connection:
 		c_brlapi.brlapi_protocolExceptionInit(self.h)
 		if self.fd == -1:
 			c_brlapi.free(self.h)
+			self.h = NULL
 			raise ConnectionError(self.settings.host, self.settings.auth)
 
 	def closeConnection(self):
@@ -465,7 +466,8 @@ cdef class Connection:
 		"""Release resources used by the connection"""
 		if self.fd != -1:
 			c_brlapi.brlapi__closeConnection(self.h)
-		c_brlapi.free(self.h)
+		if self.h != NULL:
+			c_brlapi.free(self.h)
 
 	property host:
 		"""To get authorized to connect, libbrlapi has to tell the BrlAPI server a secret key, for security reasons. This is the path to the file which holds it; it will hence have to be readable by the application."""