2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/core/case.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/core/case.py
index 180635ac6c..aae451fef2 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/core/case.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/core/case.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class OEPTestResultTestCase:
     """
     @staticmethod
     def _compress_log(log):
-        logdata = log.encode("utf-8")
+        logdata = log.encode("utf-8") if isinstance(log, str) else log
         logdata = zlib.compress(logdata)
         logdata = base64.b64encode(logdata).decode("utf-8")
         return {"compressed" : logdata}
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class OEPTestResultTestCase:
         if log is not None:
             sections[section]["log"] = self._compress_log(log)
         elif logfile is not None:
-            with open(logfile, "r") as f:
+            with open(logfile, "rb") as f:
                 sections[section]["log"] = self._compress_log(f.read())
 
         if duration is not None:
diff --git a/scripts/lib/resulttool/resultutils.py b/scripts/lib/resulttool/resultutils.py
index 177fb25f93..7cb85a6aa9 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/resulttool/resultutils.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/resulttool/resultutils.py
@@ -126,7 +126,11 @@ def decode_log(logdata):
         if "compressed" in logdata:
             data = logdata.get("compressed")
             data = base64.b64decode(data.encode("utf-8"))
-            return zlib.decompress(data).decode("utf-8")
+            data = zlib.decompress(data)
+            try:
+                return data.decode("utf-8")
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                return data
     return None
 
 def ptestresult_get_log(results, section):