bugfix: use to_text(stdout) in psrp.Connection.put_file method (#73491) - 2.9 (#73495)

* bugfix: use to_text(stdout) in psrp.Connection.put_file method (#73491)

Co-authored-by: jakegatsby <jakegatsby@example.com>
(cherry picked from commit f271d02a9f)

changelogs/fragments/psrp-json-loads-bytes.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - psrp connection plugin - ``to_text(stdout)`` before json.loads in psrp.Connection.put_file in case stdout is bytes.

lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py

@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
         if rc != 0:
             raise AnsibleError(to_native(stderr))
 
-        put_output = json.loads(stdout)
+        put_output = json.loads(to_text(stdout))
         remote_sha1 = put_output.get("sha1")
 
         if not remote_sha1: