Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: KMOD KERNEL MODULE LOADER - USERMODE HELPER

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Wed Jul 08 2020 - 07:53:29 EST


On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:13:37AM +0200, 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 neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
> 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>

Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

Shuah, can this go through your tree?

Luis

> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> index 3702dbcc90a7..84409020a40f 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ test_reqs()
> if [[ $KMOD_VERSION -le 19 ]]; then
> echo "$0: You need at least kmod 20" >&2
> echo "kmod <= 19 is buggy, for details see:" >&2
> - echo "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/commit/libkmod/libkmod-module.c?id=fd44a98ae2eb5eb32161088954ab21e58e19dfc4"; >&2
> + echo "https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/commit/libkmod/libkmod-module.c?id=fd44a98ae2eb5eb32161088954ab21e58e19dfc4"; >&2
> exit $ksft_skip
> fi
>
> --
> 2.27.0
>