Index: Modules/posixmodule.c
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--- Modules/posixmodule.c	(revision 72335)
+++ Modules/posixmodule.c	(working copy)
@@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int res;
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O&k:lchflags",
-			      PyUnicode_FSConverter, &path, &flags))
+			      PyUnicode_FSConverter, &opath, &flags))
 		return NULL;
 	path = bytes2str(opath, 1);
 	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS