diff --git a/inventory_provider/routes/msr.py b/inventory_provider/routes/msr.py
index 942f400f92d2f4b0b83db3f01ac4207f0f2c8f66..fa89e62f12d1ad9567872a0e13db196ba21f7610 100644
--- a/inventory_provider/routes/msr.py
+++ b/inventory_provider/routes/msr.py
@@ -427,8 +427,10 @@ def _find_subnet_keys(addresses):
 
         interface = ipaddress.ip_interface(m.group(1))
         try:
-            matched_address = next(a for a, v in remaining_addresses.items()
-                 if v == interface.ip)
+            matched_address = next(
+                a for a, v
+                in remaining_addresses.items()
+                if v == interface.ip)
             del remaining_addresses[matched_address]
             yield k, matched_address
         except StopIteration:
@@ -455,7 +457,7 @@ def _get_subnet_interfaces(address, r):
     _subnet_lookup_semaphore.acquire()
     try:
         all_subnets = _get_subnets(r)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         logger.exception('error looking up subnets')
         all_subnets = {}
     finally:
@@ -473,8 +475,18 @@ def _get_subnet_interfaces(address, r):
         yield from json.loads(value.decode('utf-8'))
 
 
-def _get_services_for_address(address: str, r: 'StrictRedis'):
+def _get_services_for_address(address: str, r):
+    """
+    match this address against all interfaces, then look up
+    any known services for that port
+
+    address is assumed to be in a valid v4/v6 format (it's used to
+    construct a ipaddress.ip_address object without try/except)
 
+    :param address: ip address string
+    :param r: a Redis instance
+    :return: yields PEERING_ADDRESS_SERVICES_LIST elements
+    """
     def _formatted_service(s):
         return {
             'id': s['id'],
@@ -532,7 +544,9 @@ def _load_address_services_proc(address_queue, results_queue, config_params):
 
     except json.JSONDecodeError:
         logger.exception(f'error decoding redis entry for {address}')
-    except:
+    except Exception:
+        # just log info about this error (for debugging only)
+        # ... and quit (i.e. let finally cleanup)
         logger.exception(f'error looking up service info for {address}')
     finally:
         # contract is to return None when finished
diff --git a/test/conftest.py b/test/conftest.py
index ae7c9c25ede771a380cb627eca7185bc84f016b2..bdfe95676907fa170cde88260eadc5385ffdb9a4 100644
--- a/test/conftest.py
+++ b/test/conftest.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ TEST_DATA_DIRNAME = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(
     "test",
     "data"))
 
+_bootstrap_semaphore = threading.Semaphore()
+
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def data_config_filename():
@@ -86,17 +88,6 @@ def data_config(data_config_filename):
         return config.load(f)
 
 
-TEST_DATA_DIRNAME = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(
-    inventory_provider.__path__[0],
-    "..",
-    "test",
-    "data"))
-
-
-_bootstrap_semaphore = threading.Semaphore()
-
-
-
 class MockedRedis(object):
 
     db = None