Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/filesystems

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:35:52 +0200
"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/hfs.rst                    | 2 +-
>  Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.rst                   | 2 +-
>  Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst     | 6 +++---
>  Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst            | 6 +++---
>  Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst | 8 ++++----
>  Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst   | 4 ++--
>  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst                    | 6 +++---
>  7 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

I've applied this.  But some of the pages referenced here have not changed
in over 20 years; I suspect they may be just a wee bit out of date and not
entirely helpful for people trying to understand the kernel.  I *really*
wish we could be cleaning that stuff up rather than just changing URL
protocols...

Thanks,

jon