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events.text: 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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events.title: [release-1.8] Manual cherry-pick for "Fix nil pointer dereference in initSidecarInjector of Pilot (#29049)"
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