[PATCH for v5.9] b43: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

Kalle Valo kvalo at codeaurora.org
Sun Aug 2 11:16:55 EDT 2020


"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster at 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 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>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

2d96c1ed4bab b43: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

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