Re: [PATCH v2] m68k: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 03:36:47 EST


On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:52 PM 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 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>
> ---
> v2: Thrown out de facto broken links.
> archive.org-ing is on my TODO list, but beyond this project's scope.

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
i.e. will queue in the m68k for-v5.10 branch.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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