On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 01:14:10PM -0500, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 02:12:09PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > From: Thierry Reding <tred...@nvidia.com>
> > 
> > The spdxcheck script currently falls over when confronted with a binary
> > file (such as Documentation/logo.gif). To avoid that, always open files
> > in binary mode and decode line-by-line, ignoring encoding errors.

I suggest pointing out that the breakage only happens with python3 and
results in a UnicodeDecodeError.

> > One tricky case is when piping data into the script and reading it from
> > standard input. By default, standard input will be opened in text mode,
> > so we need to reopen it in binary mode.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <tred...@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/spdxcheck.py | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/spdxcheck.py b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
> > index 5056fb3b897d..e559c6294c39 100755
> > --- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py
> > +++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
> > @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ class id_parser(object):
> >          self.curline = 0
> >          try:
> >              for line in fd:
> > +                line = line.decode(locale.getpreferredencoding(False), 
> > errors='ignore')
> >                  self.curline += 1
> >                  if self.curline > maxlines:
> >                      break
> > @@ -249,12 +250,13 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
> >  
> >      try:
> >          if len(args.path) and args.path[0] == '-':
> > -            parser.parse_lines(sys.stdin, args.maxlines, '-')
> > +            stdin = os.fdopen(sys.stdin.fileno(), 'rb')
> > +            parser.parse_lines(stdin, args.maxlines, '-')
> >          else:
> >              if args.path:
> >                  for p in args.path:
> >                      if os.path.isfile(p):
> > -                        parser.parse_lines(open(p), args.maxlines, p)
> > +                        parser.parse_lines(open(p, 'rb'), args.maxlines, p)
> >                      elif os.path.isdir(p):
> >                          scan_git_subtree(repo.head.reference.commit.tree, 
> > p)
> >                      else:
> > -- 
> > 2.19.1
> > 
> 
> It might be worth noting this fixes commit 6f4d29df66ac
> ("scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant") and also Cc this for
> stable since 6f4d29df66ac got backported to v4.19. While that commit
> did indeed make the script work with Python 3 for piping data, it broke
> Python 2 and made its way to stable.

It didn't break for me. Can you provide details about how and when it
broke for you?

Best regards
Uwe

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