Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: user-mode Linux

[Anton Ivanov]

On 07/07/2020 21:32, 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>
> ---
>   Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5.
>   See also: git log --oneline '--author=Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>' v5.7..master
>
>   If there are any URLs to be removed completely or at least not 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.
>   Rationale:
>   I'd like not to submit patches much faster than you maintainers apply them.
>
>   Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux.rst | 2 +-
>   arch/um/drivers/Kconfig                    | 2 +-
>   arch/um/drivers/harddog_kern.c             | 2 +-
>   3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux.rst b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux.rst
> index de0f0b2c9d5b..775d3de84331 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux.rst
> @@ -3753,7 +3753,7 @@ Note:
>   
>   
>     Documentation on IP Masquerading, and SNAT, can be found at
> -  http://www.netfilter.org.
> +  https://www.netfilter.org.
>   
>   
>     If you can reach the local net, but not the outside Internet, then
> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig b/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
> index 9160ead56e33..85e170149e99 100644
> --- a/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ config UML_NET_VDE
>   	To use this form of networking, you will need to run vde_switch
>   	on the host.
>   
> -	For more information, see <http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/>
> +	For more information, see <https://wiki.virtualsquare.org/>
>   	That site has a good overview of what VDE is and also examples
>   	of the UML command line to use to enable VDE networking.
>   
> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/harddog_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/harddog_kern.c
> index e6d4f43deba8..7a39b8b7ae55 100644
> --- a/arch/um/drivers/harddog_kern.c
> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/harddog_kern.c
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>    *	SoftDog	0.05:	A Software Watchdog Device
>    *
>    *	(c) Copyright 1996 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>, All Rights Reserved.
> - *				http://www.redhat.com
> + *				https://www.redhat.com
>    *
>    *	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>    *	modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

We should really try to finish the new documentation. The one in the 
kernel tree is very out of date.

The draft is here: https://github.com/kot-begemot-uk/uml-howto-v2


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