[PATCH 1/2] scripts/spdxcheck.py: Always open files in binary mode

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Wed Dec 12 2018 - 08:12:16 EST


From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

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.

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 <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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:
--
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