Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> wrote:
> 2) the ACT_QUEUED vs STOLEN was supposed to have semantics of something
> that was stolen (eg redirection should definetely have been returning
> STOLEN not QUEUED); something that queues for later re-injection
> (with any/all metadata) was intended to use QUEUED. I believe netfilter
> may have  followed suit and introduced similar codes (so it would be
> interesting to see how they use them).

Hooks (Targets) don't queue themselves, i.e. NF_QUEUE tells the
netfilter core that the skb is to be handed off to nf_queue machinery,
while NF_STOLEN is the more obvious "don't touch this skb ever again".
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