From 931c5a8d0a7d2ff0772b8b096c59feadf3b7757f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:24:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add an assertion

---
 Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Providers.pm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Providers.pm b/Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Providers.pm
index 5de8e6204..7b5f83914 100644
--- a/Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Providers.pm
+++ b/Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Providers.pm
@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ sub handle_stickiness( $ ) {
 			$rule2 = '';
 		    }
 
-		    $rule1 =~ s/-A //;
+		    assert( $rule1 =~ s/-A // );
 		    add_rule $chainref, $rule1;
 
 		    if ( $rule2 ) {