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

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Message-ID: <20200716095501.GE8455@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:55:01 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Cc:     paulburton@...nel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:12:26PM +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>
> ---
>  arch/mips/Kconfig           | 2 +-
>  arch/mips/include/asm/war.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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