From c332211997852f4781d3a7d9bf9db963f2a3831c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:16:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Possible fix for #9656

---
 kitty/glfw.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kitty/glfw.c b/kitty/glfw.c
index 6e9924b5b..206a68625 100644
--- a/kitty/glfw.c
+++ b/kitty/glfw.c
@@ -734,6 +734,7 @@ read_drop_data(GLFWwindow *window, GLFWDropEvent *ev) {
         PyObject *data = chunk;
         RAII_PyObject(existing, PyDict_GetItemString(global_state.drop_dest.data, ev->mimes[0]));
         if (existing) {
+            existing = Py_NewRef(existing);  // because PyBytes_Concat steals a reference
             PyBytes_Concat(&existing, chunk);
             data = existing;
         }