sysfs: keep a non-decodable sysfs attribute as unmodified bytes

This was causing some issues with vpd pg83 reading on newer mpt3sas drivers.
stanford-rc · Nov 15, 2021 · 567be94 · 567be94
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commit 567be94
Showing 2 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/sasutils/cli/sas_devices.py b/sasutils/cli/sas_devices.py
@@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ def print_end_devices(self, sysfsnode):
             for scsi_device in sas_end_device.targets:
                 if scsi_device.block:
                     try:
-                        pg83 = bytes(scsi_device.attrs.vpd_pg83)
+                        try:
+                            pg83 = bytes(scsi_device.attrs.vpd_pg83)
+                        except TypeError:
+                            pg83 = bytes(scsi_device.attrs.vpd_pg83,
+                                         encoding='utf-8')
                         lu = vpd_decode_pg83_lu(pg83)
                     except (AttributeError, struct.error):
                         lu = vpd_get_page83_lu(scsi_device.block.name)

diff --git a/sasutils/sysfs.py b/sasutils/sysfs.py
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ def iterget(self, pathname, ignore_errors, absolute=False):
             if isfile(path) and access(path, R_OK):
                 try:
                     with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
-                        data = fp.read().strip()
+                        data = fp.read()
                         try:
-                            data = data.decode("utf-8", errors='backslashreplace')
+                            data = data.decode("utf-8").strip()
                         except UnicodeDecodeError:
-                            pass
+                            data = data
                         yield data
                 except IOError as exc:
                     if not ignore_errors: