qemurunner: Simplify binary data handling

I have concerns that bad timing of the flow of data from the logger
might corrupt the output due to the way binary strings are handled
in qemurunner.

This simplifies the code to do the same thing it did before but much
more safely.

(From OE-Core rev: 1e87283e92a2765bb5d54d17138b208bc395953b)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
index 82335d8456..0631d43218 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ class QemuRunner:
         reachedlogin = False
         stopread = False
         qemusock = None
-        bootlog = ''
+        bootlog = b''
         data = b''
         while time.time() < endtime and not stopread:
             try:
@@ -292,17 +292,13 @@ class QemuRunner:
                 else:
                     data = data + sock.recv(1024)
                     if data:
-                        try:
-                            data = data.decode("utf-8", errors="surrogateescape")
-                            bootlog += data
-                            data = b''
-                            if re.search(".* login:", bootlog):
-                                self.server_socket = qemusock
-                                stopread = True
-                                reachedlogin = True
-                                self.logger.debug("Reached login banner")
-                        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-                            continue
+                        bootlog += data
+                        data = b''
+                        if b' login:' in bootlog:
+                            self.server_socket = qemusock
+                            stopread = True
+                            reachedlogin = True
+                            self.logger.debug("Reached login banner")
                     else:
                         socklist.remove(sock)
                         sock.close()