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

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Message-Id: <20200708184201.611d929ae6017c87ea98b114@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:42:01 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Cc:     naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: kprobes

On Tue,  7 Jul 2020 21:49:59 +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:
>   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.

OK, but it seems that some of them are disappeared :(

 http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kprobes.html?ca=dgr-lnxw42Kprobe

 -> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kprobes/index.html

 http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/kprobes/

 -> I can not find that.

>  - http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~boutcher/kprobes/
>  - http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv2.pdf (pages 101-115)

Both are not found.

(OT, it seems http://www.linuxsymposium.org/ has been left from historical
 Linux Symposium, we must remove it asap)

Thank you,

> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
> ---
>  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
> 
>  Documentation/kprobes.txt | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> index 8baab8832c5b..f6990f64154f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ process. Here are sample overhead figures (in usec) for x86 architectures::
>  TODO
>  ====
>  
> -a. SystemTap (http://sourceware.org/systemtap): Provides a simplified
> +a. SystemTap (https://sourceware.org/systemtap): Provides a simplified
>     programming interface for probe-based instrumentation.  Try it out.
>  b. Kernel return probes for sparc64.
>  c. Support for other architectures.
> @@ -712,8 +712,8 @@ See samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c
>  
>  For additional information on Kprobes, refer to the following URLs:
>  
> -- http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kprobes.html?ca=dgr-lnxw42Kprobe
> -- http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/kprobes/
> +- https://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kprobes.html?ca=dgr-lnxw42Kprobe
> +- https://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/kprobes/
>  - http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~boutcher/kprobes/
>  - http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv2.pdf (pages 101-115)
>  
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>