Fix the cloud config merging so that it is backwards compat.

The new change for merging works well in the mergedict case
but the default merging type for cloud config needs to reflect
how yaml was loaded in bulk, which is the same as the replacing
keys merging type that is now provided.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/handlers/cloud_config.py b/cloudinit/handlers/cloud_config.py
index 2ae9b226..529109ce 100644
--- a/cloudinit/handlers/cloud_config.py
+++ b/cloudinit/handlers/cloud_config.py
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ from cloudinit.settings import (PER_ALWAYS)
 LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 MERGE_HEADER = 'Merge-Type'
-DEF_MERGERS = mergers.default_mergers()
+
+# Due to the way the loading of yaml configuration was done previously,
+# where previously each cloud config part was appended to a larger yaml
+# file and then finally that file was loaded as one big yaml file we need
+# to mimic that behavior by altering the default strategy to be replacing
+# keys of later mergers.
+DEF_MERGERS = mergers.string_extract_mergers('dict(replace)+list()+str()')
 
 
 class CloudConfigPartHandler(handlers.Handler):
@@ -53,6 +59,8 @@ class CloudConfigPartHandler(handlers.Handler):
         if self.file_names:
             file_lines.append("# from %s files" % (len(self.file_names)))
             for fn in self.file_names:
+                if not fn:
+                    fn = '?'
                 file_lines.append("# %s" % (fn))
             file_lines.append("")
         if self.cloud_buf is not None:
@@ -111,7 +119,10 @@ class CloudConfigPartHandler(handlers.Handler):
             return
         try:
             self._merge_part(payload, headers)
-            self.file_names.append(filename)
+            # Ensure filename is ok to store
+            for i in ("\n", "\r", "\t"):
+                filename = filename.replace(i, " ")
+            self.file_names.append(filename.strip())
         except:
             util.logexc(LOG, "Failed at merging in cloud config part from %s",
                         filename)