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Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 11:17:04 +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 07/01/20 at 07:33pm, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 01.07.20 um 09:58 schrieb Dave Young:
> > 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?
> I'll update all of the URLs not changed yet, but (please) not in this patch
> round.
> 
> See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/26/837

If this series can be taken soon then we can wait and submit a patch
later.

Or just drop this one from your series, I can submit another one to take
the https and crash url together later.

Either works.

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