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

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 09:31:08 EST


On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 21:16:36 +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.
>

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I'd really would like to get HTTPSifying done before other tasks...
>
> Documentation/kprobes.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> index 8baab8832c5b..88b4d2845b37 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ process. Here are sample overhead figures (in usec) for x86 architectures::
> TODO
> ====
>
> -a. SystemTap (http://sourceware.org/systemtap): Provides a simplified
> +a. SystemTap (https://sourceware.org/systemtap): Provides a simplified
> programming interface for probe-based instrumentation. Try it out.
> b. Kernel return probes for sparc64.
> c. Support for other architectures.
> --
> 2.27.0
>


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