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Diffstat (limited to 'cloudinit/util.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | cloudinit/util.py | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/util.py b/cloudinit/util.py index e7407ea4..20916e53 100644 --- a/cloudinit/util.py +++ b/cloudinit/util.py @@ -2140,13 +2140,19 @@ def _read_dmi_syspath(key): LOG.debug("did not find %s", dmi_key_path) return None - key_data = load_file(dmi_key_path) + key_data = load_file(dmi_key_path, decode=False) if not key_data: LOG.debug("%s did not return any data", dmi_key_path) return None - LOG.debug("dmi data %s returned %s", dmi_key_path, key_data) - return key_data.strip() + # uninitialized dmi values show as all \xff and /sys appends a '\n'. + # in that event, return a string of '.' in the same length. + if key_data == b'\xff' * (len(key_data) - 1) + b'\n': + key_data = b"" + + str_data = key_data.decode('utf8').strip() + LOG.debug("dmi data %s returned %s", dmi_key_path, str_data) + return str_data except Exception: logexc(LOG, "failed read of %s", dmi_key_path) @@ -2162,6 +2168,9 @@ def _call_dmidecode(key, dmidecode_path): cmd = [dmidecode_path, "--string", key] (result, _err) = subp(cmd) LOG.debug("dmidecode returned '%s' for '%s'", result, key) + result = result.strip() + if result.replace(".", "") == "": + return "" return result except (IOError, OSError) as _err: LOG.debug('failed dmidecode cmd: %s\n%s', cmd, _err.message) |