SSH fails with '"parsed": false' error message

Fixes: #15436

lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py

@@ -610,6 +610,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
 
         try:
             while True:
+                poll = p.poll()
                 events = selector.select(timeout)
 
                 # We pay attention to timeouts only while negotiating a prompt.
@@ -619,7 +620,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
                     if state <= states.index('awaiting_escalation'):
                         # If the process has already exited, then it's not really a
                         # timeout; we'll let the normal error handling deal with it.
-                        if p.poll() is not None:
+                        if poll is not None:
                             break
                         self._terminate_process(p)
                         raise AnsibleError('Timeout (%ds) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: %s' % (timeout, to_native(b_stdout)))
@@ -721,7 +722,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
                 # Now we're awaiting_exit: has the child process exited? If it has,
                 # and we've read all available output from it, we're done.
 
-                if p.poll() is not None:
+                if poll is not None:
                     if not selector.get_map() or not events:
                         break
                     # We should not see further writes to the stdout/stderr file

test/units/plugins/connection/test_ssh.py

@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ class TestSSHConnectionRun(object):
             self.conn._flags['become_success'] = True
         return (b'', b'')
 
-    def test_pasword_with_prompt(self):
+    def test_password_with_prompt(self):
         # test with password prompting enabled
         self.pc.password = None
         self.pc.prompt = b'Password:'
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ class TestSSHConnectionRun(object):
         assert self.conn._send_initial_data.call_count == 1
         assert self.conn._send_initial_data.call_args[0][1] == 'this is input data'
 
-    def test_pasword_with_become(self):
+    def test_password_with_become(self):
         # test with some become settings
         self.pc.prompt = b'Password:'
         self.pc.become = True
@@ -550,8 +550,8 @@ class TestSSHConnectionRetries(object):
 
         monkeypatch.setattr('time.sleep', lambda x: None)
 
-        self.mock_popen_res.stdout.read.side_effect = [b""] * 11
-        self.mock_popen_res.stderr.read.side_effect = [b""] * 11
+        self.mock_popen_res.stdout.read.side_effect = [b""] * 10
+        self.mock_popen_res.stderr.read.side_effect = [b""] * 10
         type(self.mock_popen_res).returncode = PropertyMock(side_effect=[255] * 30)
 
         self.mock_selector.select.side_effect = [