From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F1EC433E0 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F44207E8 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728176AbgFZRPc (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:15:32 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40794 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725838AbgFZRPb (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:15:31 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9BAAEC03E979; Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4C8C374; Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:15:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:15:29 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "Alexander A. Klimov" Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "Daniel W. S. Almeida" , Al Viro , Aleksa Sarai , David Sterba , Rob Herring , William Kucharski , "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , John Hubbard , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/filesystems Message-ID: <20200626111529.10e9e13b@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20200621133552.46371-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de> References: <20200621133552.46371-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:35:52 +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 both the HTTP and HTTPS versions > return 200 OK and serve the same content: > Replace HTTP with HTTPS. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov > --- > Documentation/filesystems/hfs.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst | 6 +++--- > Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 6 +++--- > Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst | 8 ++++---- > Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst | 4 ++-- > Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 6 +++--- > 7 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) I've applied this. But some of the pages referenced here have not changed in over 20 years; I suspect they may be just a wee bit out of date and not entirely helpful for people trying to understand the kernel. I *really* wish we could be cleaning that stuff up rather than just changing URL protocols... Thanks, jon