linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SCSI RDMA PROTOCOL (SRP) TARGET: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

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Message-ID: <3d230abd-752e-8ac1-e18d-b64561b409ff@acm.org>
Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 07:22:08 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>,
        dledford@...hat.com, jgg@...pe.ca, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        target-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI RDMA PROTOCOL (SRP) TARGET: Replace HTTP links with
 HTTPS ones

On 2020-07-09 12:48, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/Kconfig b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/Kconfig
> index 4b5d9b792cfa..f63b34d9ae32 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/Kconfig
> @@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ config INFINIBAND_SRPT
>  	  that supports the RDMA protocol. Currently the RDMA protocol is
>  	  supported by InfiniBand and by iWarp network hardware. More
>  	  information about the SRP protocol can be found on the website
> -	  of the INCITS T10 technical committee (http://www.t10.org/).
> +	  of the INCITS T10 technical committee (https://www.t10.org/).

It is not clear to me how modifying an URL in a Kconfig file helps to
reduce the attack surface on kernel devs?

Thanks,

Bart.