linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: kirkwood: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

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Message-ID: <87wo3036cn.fsf@FE-laptop>
Date:   Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:39:52 +0200
From:   Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>,
        jason@...edaemon.net, andrew@...n.ch,
        sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: kirkwood: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de> writes:

> 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 on mvebu/dt

Thanks,

Gregory
> ---
>  Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5.
>  See also: git log --oneline '--author=Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@...klimov.de>' v5.7..master
>  (Actually letting a shell for loop submit all this stuff for me.)
>
>  If there are any URLs to be removed completely or at least not just 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
>
>  If you apply the patch, please let me know.
>
>  Sorry again to all maintainers who complained about subject lines.
>  Now I realized that you want an actually perfect prefixes,
>  not just subsystem ones.
>  I tried my best...
>  And yes, *I could* (at least half-)automate it.
>  Impossible is nothing! :)
>
>
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-b3.dts | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-b3.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-b3.dts
> index 17f48f88a983..a7636fe28501 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-b3.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-b3.dts
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>   * L2 cache. If your B3 silently fails to boot, u-boot is probably too
>   * old. Either upgrade, or consider the following email:
>   *
> - * http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2012/08/msg00128.html
> + * https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2012/08/msg00128.html
>   */
>  
>  /dts-v1/;
> -- 
> 2.27.0
>

-- 
Gregory Clement, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://bootlin.com