Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: LVM
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: 2020-07-05 20:30:03
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On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:31:38 +0200 "Alexander A. Klimov" [off-list ref] 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 <redacted>Applied but...
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig index 921888df6764..30ba3573626c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_MD More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn + <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn
This HOWTO, once one finds it beyond that link, starts by saying: This HOWTO is deprecated; the Linux RAID HOWTO is maintained as a wiki by the linux-raid community at http://raid.wiki.kernel.org/ So clearly adding HTTPS isn't really the optimal fix here... jon