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=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham 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 ED116C433DF for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2020 20:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DEF2074F for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2020 20:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728303AbgGEUaC (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2020 16:30:02 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:59738 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728244AbgGEUaC (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2020 16:30:02 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 089F6C061794; Sun, 5 Jul 2020 13:30:02 -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 599C1846; Sun, 5 Jul 2020 20:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 14:30:00 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "Alexander A. Klimov" Cc: agk@redhat.com, snitzer@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, song@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: LVM Message-ID: <20200705143000.51c350b7@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20200627103138.71885-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de> References: <20200627103138.71885-1-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 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:31:38 +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 Applied but... > diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig > index 921888df6764..30ba3573626c 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig > @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_MD > > More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the > Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from > - . There you will also learn > + . There you will also learn This HOWTO, once one finds it beyond that link, starts by saying: This HOWTO is deprecated; the Linux RAID HOWTO is maintained as a wiki by the linux-raid community at http://raid.wiki.kernel.org/ So clearly adding HTTPS isn't really the optimal fix here... jon