Re: [PATCH] VFAT/FAT/MSDOS FILESYSTEM: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

[OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>]

"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> writes:

> 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@al2klimov.de>

Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

> ---
>  Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5.
>  See also: git log --oneline '--author=Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@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 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.
>
>
>  fs/fat/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fat/Kconfig b/fs/fat/Kconfig
> index ca31993dcb47..66532a71e8fd 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/fat/Kconfig
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ config MSDOS_FS
>  	  they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
>  	  Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
>  	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
> -	  <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
> +	  <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
>  	  <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
>  	  intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
>  	  here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes

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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>