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From: Michael D <michael.j.dilmore@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:35:56 +0100

> How do we actually stop a null pointer being dereferenced here?

Maybe that's why it's a BUG_ON(), there is no reasonable way
to continue if the pointer is NULL.