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Bug
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Resolution: Done-Errata
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Undefined
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rhel-9.2.0
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dnf-plugins-core-4.3.0-12.el9
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None
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None
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rhel-sst-cs-software-management
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ssg_core_services
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10
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12
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None
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QE ack, Dev ack
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False
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None
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None
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Pass
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Enabled
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Automated
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Release Note Not Required
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Unspecified
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None
Description of problem:
Occasionally when needs-restarting is ran, a component which requires restart may have an open fd corresponding to an entry in the smaps table with garbage characters in them. When this occurs, needs-restarting exits nonzero with a stacktrace referencing the attempt to read non-ascii lines from a filehandle established on line 77 of needs-restarting.py. This shouldn't be all that surprising, given the smaps file is in fact just binary content and not an encoded text file, but even then in 99% or more of cases I'd suspect this would still be fine to not handle.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.21-19 (dnf-plugins-core-4.0.21-19.el8_8.noarch)
How reproducible:
My best guess was to ensure one of the services which needs restarting was holding open a file with UTF-8 characters in the filename then run needs-restarting. This is... rather difficult to actually hit out in the wild, and at cPanel we've only seen it from customers reporting it to us after getting failure emails about needs-restarting. As such I went for a contrived approach within a unit test to reproduce the issue.
Steps to Reproduce:
See test in forthcoming pull request. I have no idea how people actually hit this in the wild, but we've got enough complaints about it that I can say it is a real problem.
Actual results:
File "/usr/bin/needs-restarting", line 101, in <module>
main.user_main(MAPPING[command] + args, exit_code=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 201, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 67, in main
return _main(base, args, cli_class, option_parser_class)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 106, in _main
return cli_run(cli, base)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 122, in cli_run
cli.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 1055, in run
return self.command.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/needs_restarting.py", line 270, in run
for ofile in list_opened_files(uid):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/needs_restarting.py", line 77, in list_opened_files
lines = smaps_file.readlines()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1562: ordinal not in range(128)
Expected results:
No nonzero exit, no stacktrace.
Additional info:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/494
- external trackers
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RHBA-2023:123793 dnf-plugins-core bug fix and enhancement update