Index: Lib/socket.py
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--- Lib/socket.py	(revision 67439)
+++ Lib/socket.py	(working copy)
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@
             raise ValueError("invalid mode: %r" % mode)
         io.RawIOBase.__init__(self)
         self._sock = sock
+        self._need_to_decref_sock = True
         if "b" not in mode:
             mode += "b"
         self._mode = mode
@@ -238,10 +239,15 @@
     def close(self):
         if self.closed:
             return
+        # http://bugs.python.org/issue3826 - Closed SocketIO's from makefile()
+        # should not prevent the underlying socket from being closed.
+        self._sock._decref_socketios()
+        self._need_to_decref_sock = False
         io.RawIOBase.close(self)
 
     def __del__(self):
-        self._sock._decref_socketios()
+        if self._need_to_decref_sock:
+            self._sock._decref_socketios()
 
 
 def getfqdn(name=''):