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From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kprobes: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
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On Thu,  9 Jul 2020 21:16:36 +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.
> 

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Thanks!

> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
> ---
>  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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