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From: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:46:47 +0200
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>> A dumb question: is bypassing tcpdump/netfilters/qdisc etc. what we
>> always want? Isn't this a security issue?
>
> We are not bypassing any of the regular stack checks/hooks, we call the
> normal netif_rx_skb().
correction, netif_receive_skb()