From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Pylint complains about a missing "encoding" parameter for the open()
function here, and about a missing return statement in the "except"
block (which cannot happen since skipTest() never returns). Rework
the code a little bit to silence the warnings.

Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20251119082636.43286-9-thuth@redhat.com>
---
 tests/functional/x86_64/test_memlock.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/functional/x86_64/test_memlock.py b/tests/functional/x86_64/test_memlock.py
index 81bce80b0c4..f970a2c3095 100755
--- a/tests/functional/x86_64/test_memlock.py
+++ b/tests/functional/x86_64/test_memlock.py
@@ -69,11 +69,13 @@ def get_process_status_values(self, pid: int) -> Dict[str, int]:
         return result
 
     def _get_raw_process_status(self, pid: int) -> str:
+        status = None
         try:
-            with open(f'/proc/{pid}/status', 'r') as f:
-                return f.read()
+            with open(f'/proc/{pid}/status', 'r', encoding="ascii") as f:
+                status = f.read()
         except FileNotFoundError:
             self.skipTest("Can't open status file of the process")
+        return status
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-- 
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