[PATCH] capabilities: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

Alexander A. Klimov grandmaster at al2klimov.de
Mon Jul 13 10:34:28 UTC 2020


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 at al2klimov.de>
---
 Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5.
 See also: git log --oneline '--author=Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster at al2klimov.de>' v5.7..master
 (Actually letting a shell for loop submit all this stuff for me.)

 If there are any URLs to be removed completely or at least not just HTTPSified:
 Just clearly say so and I'll *undo my change*.
 See also: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/27/64

 If there are any valid, but yet not changed URLs:
 See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/26/837

 If you apply the patch, please let me know.

 Sorry again to all maintainers who complained about subject lines.
 Now I realized that you want an actually perfect prefixes,
 not just subsystem ones.
 I tried my best...
 And yes, *I could* (at least half-)automate it.
 Impossible is nothing! :)


 kernel/capability.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
index 1444f3954d75..a8a20ebc43ee 100644
--- a/kernel/capability.c
+++ b/kernel/capability.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ __setup("no_file_caps", file_caps_disable);
 /*
  * More recent versions of libcap are available from:
  *
- *   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/
+ *   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/
  */
 
 static void warn_legacy_capability_use(void)
-- 
2.27.0



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