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-rw-r--r--cloudinit/ec2_utils.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/ec2_utils.py b/cloudinit/ec2_utils.py
index 0c16ae47..13691549 100644
--- a/cloudinit/ec2_utils.py
+++ b/cloudinit/ec2_utils.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class MetadataLeafDecoder(object):
def __call__(self, field, blob):
if not blob:
- return blob
+ return ''
try:
blob = util.decode_binary(blob)
except UnicodeDecodeError: