diff --git a/lib/log/log.c b/lib/log/log.c
index c6f6857c3..a6b0a3764 100644
--- a/lib/log/log.c
+++ b/lib/log/log.c
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ fdump(FILE *fp, const char *label, const uint8_t *buf, size_t len)
 		}
 
 		total += snprintf(tmpbuf + total, sizeof tmpbuf - total, "   ");
-		buf16[idx % 16] = ' ';
 	}
 	snprintf(tmpbuf + total, sizeof tmpbuf - total, "  %s", buf16);
 	fprintf(fp, "%s\n", tmpbuf);
diff --git a/test/blobstore/blobstore.sh b/test/blobstore/blobstore.sh
index 66b6b1a67..4baf5fbec 100755
--- a/test/blobstore/blobstore.sh
+++ b/test/blobstore/blobstore.sh
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ dd if=/dev/urandom of=$testdir/test.pattern bs=1M count=1
 (cd $testdir &&
 $rootdir/examples/blob/cli/blobcli -c $testdir/blobcli.conf -b Nvme0n1 -T $testdir/test.bs > $testdir/btest.out)
 
-# the tool leaves some trailing whitespaces that we need to strip out
-sed -i 's/[[:space:]]*$//' $testdir/btest.out
-
 # the test script will import the test pattern generated by dd and then export
 # it to a file so we can compare and confirm basic read and write
 $rootdir/test/app/match/match -v $testdir/btest.out.match