linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl

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Message-ID: <20200626103759.75d92856@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:37:59 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones:
 Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:54:02 +0200
"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de> wrote:

> Rationale:
> Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
> 
> Deterministic algorithm:
> For each file:
>   For each line:
>     If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
>       For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
>         If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
>         return 200 OK and serve the same content:
>           Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl b/Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl
> index c518050ffc3f..00a69aceff44 100755
> --- a/Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl
> +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl
> @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ Report bugs to Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
>  
>  Copyright (c) 2016 by Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>.
>  
> -License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> +License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>  
>  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I've applied this, but I think the correct fix is to replace that notice
with an SPDX header.

jon