On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:33:46AM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5. > See also: git log --oneline '--author=Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>' 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. > > > Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst > index d0a060de3973..64fd62507ae5 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ of their attack without resorting to user-assisted phishing. > > This is not a theoretical problem. SSH session hijacking > (http://www.storm.net.nz/projects/7) and arbitrary code injection This link is dead. It is likely best replaced by: https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-05/bh-us-05-boileau.pdf (this is the same person, but it seems storm.net.nz is gone) > -(http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2007/05/injectso.html) attacks already > +(https://c-skills.blogspot.com/2007/05/injectso.html) attacks already > exist and remain possible if ptrace is allowed to operate as before. > Since ptrace is not commonly used by non-developers and non-admins, system > builders should be allowed the option to disable this debugging system. With that change: Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> for the docs tree. -- Kees Cook
