From 7570fc0d6082cb476c32233c2904214dd57737a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:03:22 -0500

Subject: [PATCH] python-linux-procfs: Fix traceback with non-utf8 chars in the

 /proc/PID/cmdline

Fix traceback if there are non-utf8 characters in the /proc/PID/cmdline

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>

---

 procfs/procfs.py | 6 +++---

 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/procfs/procfs.py b/procfs/procfs.py

index 3b7474cccb01..408b2bcd0a31 100755

--- a/procfs/procfs.py

+++ b/procfs/procfs.py

@@ -357,9 +357,9 @@ class process:

         return hasattr(self, attr)

     def load_cmdline(self):

-        f = open("/proc/%d/cmdline" % self.pid)

-        self.cmdline = f.readline().strip().split('\0')[:-1]

-        f.close()

+        with open("/proc/%d/cmdline" % self.pid, mode='rb') as f:

+            cmdline = f.readline().decode(encoding='unicode_escape')

+            self.cmdline = cmdline.strip().split('\0')[:-1]

     def load_threads(self):

         self.threads = pidstats("/proc/%d/task/" % self.pid)

-- 

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