Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling

From: Eliezer Tamir
Date: Mon Mar 04 2013 - 03:46:55 EST






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()
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