Be more safe on string/bytes when writing multipart user-data to disk.

When creating the multipart mime message that is written as
user-data.txt.i, cloud-init losing data on conversion to some things
as a string.

LP: #1768600

Author: Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com>
Co-Authored-By: Chad Smith <chad.smith@canonical.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/user_data.py b/cloudinit/user_data.py
index 8f6aba1e..ed83d2d8 100644
--- a/cloudinit/user_data.py
+++ b/cloudinit/user_data.py
@@ -337,8 +337,10 @@ def is_skippable(part):
 
 # Coverts a raw string into a mime message
 def convert_string(raw_data, content_type=NOT_MULTIPART_TYPE):
+    """convert a string (more likely bytes) or a message into
+    a mime message."""
     if not raw_data:
-        raw_data = ''
+        raw_data = b''
 
     def create_binmsg(data, content_type):
         maintype, subtype = content_type.split("/", 1)
@@ -346,15 +348,17 @@ def convert_string(raw_data, content_type=NOT_MULTIPART_TYPE):
         msg.set_payload(data)
         return msg
 
-    try:
-        data = util.decode_binary(util.decomp_gzip(raw_data))
-        if "mime-version:" in data[0:4096].lower():
-            msg = util.message_from_string(data)
-        else:
-            msg = create_binmsg(data, content_type)
-    except UnicodeDecodeError:
-        msg = create_binmsg(raw_data, content_type)
+    if isinstance(raw_data, six.text_type):
+        bdata = raw_data.encode('utf-8')
+    else:
+        bdata = raw_data
+    bdata = util.decomp_gzip(bdata, decode=False)
+    if b"mime-version:" in bdata[0:4096].lower():
+        msg = util.message_from_string(bdata.decode('utf-8'))
+    else:
+        msg = create_binmsg(bdata, content_type)
 
     return msg
 
+
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