diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 758b70e21f2..d33a8fdc4f1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
     (Bob)
   . Fixed bug #71273 (A wrong ext directory setup in php.ini leads to crash).
     (Anatol)
+  . Fixed bug #71297 (Memory leak with consecutive yield from). (Bob)
 
 - CURL:
   . Fixed bug #71225 (curl_setopt() fails to set CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS with
diff --git a/Zend/tests/generators/bug71297.phpt b/Zend/tests/generators/bug71297.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eed72786011
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Zend/tests/generators/bug71297.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+--TEST--
+Bug #71297 (Memory leak with consecutive yield from)
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+function foo() {
+	yield array_fill(0, 10000, 4);
+}
+
+function genLeak() {
+	$i = 0;
+	while (1) {
+		yield from foo();
+		print $i++;
+	}
+}
+
+$x = 0;
+foreach (genLeak() as $i) {
+	if ($x++ == 3) break;
+}
+
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+012
diff --git a/Zend/zend_generators.c b/Zend/zend_generators.c
index b5e6c6a2215..09cbb9a5ee2 100644
--- a/Zend/zend_generators.c
+++ b/Zend/zend_generators.c
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ ZEND_API zend_generator *zend_generator_update_current(zend_generator *generator
 			if (EXPECTED(EG(exception) == NULL)) {
 				zend_op *yield_from = (zend_op *) root->execute_data->opline - 1;
 
-				if (yield_from->opcode == ZEND_YIELD_FROM && !(yield_from->result_type & EXT_TYPE_UNUSED)) {
+				if (yield_from->opcode == ZEND_YIELD_FROM) {
 					if (Z_ISUNDEF(root->node.parent->retval)) {
 						/* Throw the exception in the context of the generator */
 						zend_execute_data *original_execute_data = EG(current_execute_data);
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ ZEND_API zend_generator *zend_generator_update_current(zend_generator *generator
 
 						EG(current_execute_data) = original_execute_data;
 					} else {
+						zval_dtor(&root->value);
 						ZVAL_COPY(&root->value, &root->node.parent->value);
 						ZVAL_COPY(ZEND_CALL_VAR(root->execute_data, yield_from->result.var), &root->node.parent->retval);
 					}