linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SUNDANCE NETWORK DRIVER: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

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Message-ID: <04d15af886da8c91309134b67c0d3e8d69089188.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:23:31 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Cc:     kda@...ux-powerpc.org, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNDANCE NETWORK DRIVER: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS
 ones

On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 17:44 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu,  9 Jul 2020 22:49:25 +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 neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
> >             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, but please find a better algorithm for generating
> the subject prefixes. 

Suggestions welcomed for automating patch subject prefixes
for generic treewide conversions by subsystem.

git history doesn't work particularly well for that.