On Sun, 5 Jul 2020, 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 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>

Thanks.

Applied to 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next-general


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James Morris
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