Inspection is failing on hosts which special characters found in serial number of block devices:

Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy ironic-agent[2272]: 2024-07-03 09:16:11.325 1 DEBUG ironic_python_agent.inspector [-] collected data: {'inventory'....'error': "The following errors were encountered:\n* collector logs failed: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 12: invalid start byte"} call_inspector /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/inspector.py:128

Serial found:
"serial": "2HC015KJ0000\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff"

Interesting stacktrace error:
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]: UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 1260-1267: surrogates not allowed

Full stack trace:
~~~
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]: 2024-07-03 09:16:11.628 1 DEBUG oslo_concurrency.processutils [-] CMD "lsblk -bia --json -oKNAME,MODEL,SIZE,ROTA,TYPE,UUID,PARTUUID,SERIAL" returned: 0 in 0.006s e
xecute /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/oslo_concurrency/processutils.py:422
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy ironic-agent[2272]: --- Logging error ---
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]: --- Logging error ---
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy ironic-agent[2272]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy ironic-agent[2272]:   File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/logging/__init__.py", line 1086, in emit
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/logging/__init__.py", line 1086, in emit
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     stream.write(msg + self.terminator)
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]: UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 1260-1267: surrogates not allowed
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]: Call stack:
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy ironic-agent[2272]:     stream.write(msg + self.terminator)
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy ironic-agent[2272]: UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 1260-1267: surrogates not allowed
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/bin/ironic-python-agent", line 10, in <module>
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     sys.exit(run())
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/cmd/agent.py", line 50, in run
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     agent.IronicPythonAgent(CONF.api_url,
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy ironic-agent[2272]: Call stack:
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/agent.py", line 485, in run
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     self.process_lookup_data(content)
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/agent.py", line 400, in process_lookup_data
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     hardware.cache_node(self.node)
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/hardware.py", line 3179, in cache_node
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     dispatch_to_managers('wait_for_disks')
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/hardware.py", line 3124, in dispatch_to_managers
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     return getattr(manager, method)(*args, **kwargs)
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/hardware.py", line 997, in wait_for_disks
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     self.get_os_install_device()
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/hardware.py", line 1518, in get_os_install_device
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     block_devices = self.list_block_devices_check_skip_list(
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/hardware.py", line 1495, in list_block_devices_check_skip_list
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     block_devices = self.list_block_devices(
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/hardware.py", line 1460, in list_block_devices
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     block_devices = list_all_block_devices()
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_python_agent/hardware.py", line 526, in list_all_block_devices
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     report = il_utils.execute('lsblk', '-bia', '--json',
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_lib/utils.py", line 111, in execute
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     _log(result[0], result[1])
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ironic_lib/utils.py", line 99, in _log
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]:     LOG.debug('Command stdout is: "%s"', stdout)
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]: Message: 'Command stdout is: "%s"'
Jul 03 09:16:11 master3.xxxxxx.yyy podman[2234]: Arguments: ('{\n   "blockdevices": [\n      {\n         "kname": "loop0",\n         "model": null,\n         "size": 67467313152,\n         "rota": false,\n         "type": "loop",\n         "uuid": "28f5ff52-7f5b-4e5a-bcf2-59813e5aef5a",\n         "partuuid": null,\n         "serial": null\n      },{\n         "kname": "loop1",\n         "model": null,\n         "size": 1027846144,\n         "rota": false,\n         "type": "loop",\n         "uuid": null,\n         "partuuid": null,\n         "serial": null\n      },{\n         "kname": "sda",\n         "model": "LITEON IT ECE-12",\n         "size": 120034123776,\n         "rota": false,\n         "type": "disk",\n         "uuid": null,\n         "partuuid": null,\n         "serial": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"\n      },{\n         "kname": "sdb",\n         "model": "LITEON IT ECE-12",\n         "size": 120034123776,\n         "rota": false,\n         "type": "disk",\n         "uuid": null,\n         "partuuid": null,\n         "serial": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"\n      },{\n         "kname": "sdc",\n         "model": "External",\n         "size": 0,\n         "rota": true,\n         "type": "disk",\n         "uuid": null,\n         "partuuid": null,\n         "serial": "2HC015KJ0000\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff\udcff"\n      }\n   ]\n}\n',)
~~~

OCP 4.14.28

Always

    1. Add a BMH with a bad utf-8 characters in serial
    2.
    3.
    

Inspection fail

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