Backport/2.10/72390 (#72690)

* Return error if cwd directory does not exist (#72390)

* Return warning or error if cwd directory does not exist, in AnsibleModule.run_command()

(cherry picked from commit 5654de6fce)

* added flag in run_command signature to control behaviour when cwd does not exist

changelogs/fragments/72390-return-error-if-cwd-directory-does-not-exist.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - basic.AnsibleModule - AnsibleModule.run_command silently ignores a non-existent directory in the ``cwd`` argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72390).

changelogs/fragments/run-command-cwd.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - AnsibleModule - added arg ``ignore_invalid_cwd`` to ``AnsibleModule.run_command()``, to control its behaviour when ``cwd`` is invalid. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72390)

lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py

@@ -2531,7 +2531,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
 
     def run_command(self, args, check_rc=False, close_fds=True, executable=None, data=None, binary_data=False, path_prefix=None, cwd=None,
                     use_unsafe_shell=False, prompt_regex=None, environ_update=None, umask=None, encoding='utf-8', errors='surrogate_or_strict',
-                    expand_user_and_vars=True, pass_fds=None, before_communicate_callback=None):
+                    expand_user_and_vars=True, pass_fds=None, before_communicate_callback=None, ignore_invalid_cwd=True):
         '''
         Execute a command, returns rc, stdout, and stderr.
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,9 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
             after ``Popen`` object will be created
             but before communicating to the process.
             (``Popen`` object will be passed to callback as a first argument)
+        :kw ignore_invalid_cwd: This flag indicates whether an invalid ``cwd``
+            (non-existent or not a directory) should be ignored or should raise
+            an exception.
         :returns: A 3-tuple of return code (integer), stdout (native string),
             and stderr (native string).  On python2, stdout and stderr are both
             byte strings.  On python3, stdout and stderr are text strings converted
@@ -2695,14 +2698,17 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
         prev_dir = os.getcwd()
 
         # make sure we're in the right working directory
-        if cwd and os.path.isdir(cwd):
+        if cwd:
-            cwd = to_bytes(os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(cwd)), errors='surrogate_or_strict')
+            if os.path.isdir(cwd):
-            kwargs['cwd'] = cwd
+                cwd = to_bytes(os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(cwd)), errors='surrogate_or_strict')
-            try:
+                kwargs['cwd'] = cwd
-                os.chdir(cwd)
+                try:
-            except (OSError, IOError) as e:
+                    os.chdir(cwd)
-                self.fail_json(rc=e.errno, msg="Could not open %s, %s" % (cwd, to_native(e)),
+                except (OSError, IOError) as e:
-                               exception=traceback.format_exc())
+                    self.fail_json(rc=e.errno, msg="Could not chdir to %s, %s" % (cwd, to_native(e)),
+                                   exception=traceback.format_exc())
+            elif not ignore_invalid_cwd:
+                self.fail_json(msg="Provided cwd is not a valid directory: %s" % cwd)
 
         old_umask = None
         if umask:

test/units/module_utils/basic/test_run_command.py

@@ -180,6 +180,14 @@ class TestRunCommandCwd:
         rc_am.run_command('/bin/ls', cwd='/not-a-dir')
         assert rc_am._os.chdir.mock_calls == [mocker.call('/old'), ]
 
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('stdin', [{}], indirect=['stdin'])
+    def test_cwd_not_a_dir_noignore(self, rc_am):
+        rc_am._os.getcwd.return_value = '/old'
+        rc_am._os.path.isdir.side_effect = lambda d: d != '/not-a-dir'
+        with pytest.raises(SystemExit):
+            rc_am.run_command('/bin/ls', cwd='/not-a-dir', ignore_invalid_cwd=False)
+        assert rc_am.fail_json.called
+
 
 class TestRunCommandPrompt:
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('stdin', [{}], indirect=['stdin'])