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Message-ID: <20200701075803.GB3878@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Jul 2020 15:58:03 +0800
From:   Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Cc:     bhe@...hat.com, vgoyal@...hat.com, corbet@....net,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: kdump

On 06/27/20 at 12:31pm, Alexander A. Klimov 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:
>   If not .svg:
>     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>
> ---
>  If there are any URLs to be removed completely or at least not HTTPSified:
>  Just clearly say so and I'll *undo my change*.
>  See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/27/64
> 
>  If there are any valid, but yet not changed URLs:
>  See https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/26/837
> 
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> index 2da65fef2a1c..8cfa35f777f5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> @@ -65,20 +65,20 @@ Install kexec-tools
>  
>  2) Download the kexec-tools user-space package from the following URL:
>  
> -http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.tar.gz
> +https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.tar.gz
>  
>  This is a symlink to the latest version.
>  
>  The latest kexec-tools git tree is available at:
>  
>  - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
> -- http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
> +- https://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
>  
>  There is also a gitweb interface available at
> -http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
> +https://www.kernel.org/git/?p=utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
>  
>  More information about kexec-tools can be found at
> -http://horms.net/projects/kexec/
> +https://horms.net/projects/kexec/
>  
>  3) Unpack the tarball with the tar command, as follows::
>  
> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ dump kernel.
>  You can also use the Crash utility to analyze dump files in Kdump
>  format. Crash is available on Dave Anderson's site at the following URL:
>  
> -   http://people.redhat.com/~anderson/
> +   https://people.redhat.com/~anderson/

Would you mind to update above url as well?

Dave have moved it to below url instead:
https://crash-utility.github.io/

Thanks
Dave