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Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:14:47 +0530
From:   "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: kprobes
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        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue,  7 Jul 2020 21:49:59 +0200
> "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> 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.
> 
> OK, but it seems that some of them are disappeared :(
> 
>  http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kprobes.html?ca=dgr-lnxw42Kprobe
> 
>  -> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kprobes/index.html

That looks right.

> 
>  http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/kprobes/
> 
>  -> I can not find that.

Ditto, we should drop that.

> 
>>  - http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~boutcher/kprobes/
>>  - http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv2.pdf (pages 101-115)
> 
> Both are not found.

It looks like the first link is gone, but there seems to be a copy in 
the web archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061106154519/http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~boutcher/kprobes/

I suppose we can drop that link.

> 
> (OT, it seems http://www.linuxsymposium.org/ has been left from historical
>  Linux Symposium, we must remove it asap)

Indeed, I think that link pointed to the Kprobes paper:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-109-124.pdf


- Naveen