Re: [PATCH] SUNDANCE NETWORK DRIVER: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Jul 15 2020 - 20:44:41 EST


On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 22:49:25 +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>

Applied to net-next, but please find a better algorithm for generating
the subject prefixes.

Thanks.