Subject: Re: [NET_SCHED]: cls_fw: fix NULL pointer dereference

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:25:02 -0500

On Mon, 2006-04-12 at 16:34 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Fix a regression from my nfmark mask patch for cls_fw.
> 
> Thomas, Jamal, do you have an idea what this "old method" stuff
> is used for? It seems it is only used during the below mentioned
> race.

AFAIK, that has been there forever. Alexey may know. I am not
sure if removing it will break any scripts etc.

cheers,
jamal