Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: security

[James Morris]

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 <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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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