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SpecialYang
Fixes https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/29049. The same issue is also in release-1.8, which needed be fixed. 

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[release-1.8] Manual cherry-pick for "Fix nil pointer dereference in initSidecarInjector of Pilot (#29049)"
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howardjohn
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@SpecialYang: The following test **failed**, say `/retest` to rerun all failed tests:

Test name | Commit | Details | Rerun command
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release-notes_istio_release-1.8 | 37e3b5f5bc2d1c6e6451dadf9bba29ac160d52be | [link](https://prow.istio.io/view/gs/istio-prow/pr-logs/pull/istio_istio/29074/release-notes_istio_release-1.8/1329828812245962752) | `/test release-notes_istio_release-1.8`

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