[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] patman: Convert byte arrays to strings

[Simon Glass]

On 30 March 2017 at 08:44, George McCollister
<george.mccollister at gmail.com> wrote:
> os.read() returns a byte array in Python 3.5.2 and needs to be converted
> into a string. Check if the returned value is an instance of bytes and
> if it is decode it as a utf-8 string. If it is not a utf-8 encoded string
> the decoding may fail with an exception.
>
> Prior to this fix the comparisions check data == "" would fail when data
> was b'' and would cause an infinite memory leaking loop. joins would
> also fail with an exception below but due to the infinite loop it never
> made it that far.
>
> Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister at gmail.com>
> ---
>  tools/patman/cros_subprocess.py | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>