The dpdk-devbind.py tool crashes if some NIC property contains a unicode character - Patch proposal

https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391

Bug ID: 391
Summary: The dpdk-devbind.py tool crashes if some NIC property
contains a unicode character - Patch proposal
Product: DPDK
Version: 19.11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: other
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 82
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Error + Correction patch proposed

Calling the dpdk-devbind.py tool may crash with the following message:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 17:
ordinal not in range(128)

Actually this happens when one of the network cards shows a non ascii code in one of its properties.
The failure occurs whether or not the NIC in cause is concerned by the current action.
Example of a mellanox card with attribute 'Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies ConnectX®-5'.

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