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Date:   Mon, 6 Jul 2020 10:40:53 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        wei.liu@...nel.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Hyper-V core and
 drivers

On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 11:44:57PM +0200, 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>

Thanks for the patch.

I will reword the subject line to be more specific to:

 tools: hv: change http to https in hv_kvp_daemon.c

.

> ---
>  Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5.
> 
>  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
> 
>  tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
> index ee9c1bb2293e..1e6fd6ca513b 100644
> --- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
> +++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
> @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ void kvp_get_os_info(void)
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Parse the /etc/os-release file if present:
> -	 * http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html
> +	 * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html
>  	 */
>  	file = fopen("/etc/os-release", "r");
>  	if (file != NULL) {
> -- 
> 2.27.0
>