From 3da24bb449c312e51086734cf935c0c661e1f95f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 09:59:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: Fix incorrect refcounting in new `asarray` path

The new path to preserve dtypes provided by creating a view got the
reference counting wrong, because it also hit the incref path that
was needed for returning the identity.

This fixes up gh-21995

Closes gh-22233
---
 numpy/core/src/multiarray/multiarraymodule.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/multiarraymodule.c b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/multiarraymodule.c
index f01752431b4d..f8e7d37c3651 100644
--- a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/multiarraymodule.c
+++ b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/multiarraymodule.c
@@ -1631,8 +1631,8 @@ _array_fromobject_generic(
         oldtype = PyArray_DESCR(oparr);
         if (PyArray_EquivTypes(oldtype, type)) {
             if (copy != NPY_COPY_ALWAYS && STRIDING_OK(oparr, order)) {
-                Py_INCREF(op);
                 if (oldtype == type) {
+                    Py_INCREF(op);
                     ret = oparr;
                 }
                 else {