OCPBUGS-73750: [release-4.18] Fix pointers without ptr.Deref

[ricky-rav]

Manual cherry-pick of 16c498c.

The original PR 16c498c merged in 4.19 and the fix for the nil pointers was never backported.

It's a manual cherry pick because the commit in question was the last one in a large PR of 11 commits and of course a lot of the surrounding code had changed in the preceding commits.

[openshift-ci-robot]

@ricky-rav: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-73750, which is valid.

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• bug is open, matching expected state (open)
• bug target version (4.18.z) matches configured target version for branch (4.18.z)
• bug is in the state POST, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)
• release note text is set and does not match the template
• dependent bug Jira Issue OCPBUGS-73749 is in the state Closed (Done), which is one of the valid states (VERIFIED, RELEASE PENDING, CLOSED (ERRATA), CLOSED (CURRENT RELEASE), CLOSED (DONE), CLOSED (DONE-ERRATA))
• dependent Jira Issue OCPBUGS-73749 targets the "4.19.z" version, which is one of the valid target versions: 4.19.0, 4.19.z
• bug has dependents

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The bug has been updated to refer to the pull request using the external bug tracker.

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Manual cherry-pick of 16c498c.

The original PR 16c498c merged in 4.19 and the fix for the nil pointers was never backported.

It's a manual cherry pick because the commit in question was the last one in a large PR of 11 commits and of course a lot of the surrounding code had changed in the preceding commits.

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/lgtm

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@ricky-rav: The following test failed, say /retest to rerun all failed tests or /retest-required to rerun all mandatory failed tests:

Test name	Commit	Details	Required	Rerun command
ci/prow/security	84be31a	link	false	/test security

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