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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()