linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: IPv*

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Message-Id: <20200706.132319.1942886313658107601.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:23:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     grandmaster@...klimov.de
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kuba@...nel.org,
        paul@...l-moore.com, pablo@...filter.org, kadlec@...filter.org,
        fw@...len.de, edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: IPv*

From: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Date: Mon,  6 Jul 2020 19:38:50 +0200

> 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>

Applied to net-next, thank you very much for doing this.