Properly handle nil interfaces in DeepCopy.

Running reflect.ValueOf(X) where X is a nil interface will return
a zero Value. We cannot get the type (because no concrete type is
known) and cannot check if the Value is nil later on due to the way
reflect.Value works. So we should handle this case by immediately
returning nil. We cannot type-assert a nil interface to another
interface type (as no concrete type is assigned), so we must add
another check to see if the returned interface is nil.

pkg/api/deep_copy_generated.go

@@ -736,6 +736,8 @@ func deepCopy_api_List(in List, out *List, c *conversion.Cloner) error {
 		for i := range in.Items {
 			if newVal, err := c.DeepCopy(in.Items[i]); err != nil {
 				return err
+			} else if newVal == nil {
+				out.Items[i] = nil
 			} else {
 				out.Items[i] = newVal.(runtime.Object)
 			}
@@ -758,11 +760,15 @@ func deepCopy_api_ListOptions(in ListOptions, out *ListOptions, c *conversion.Cl
 	}
 	if newVal, err := c.DeepCopy(in.LabelSelector); err != nil {
 		return err
+	} else if newVal == nil {
+		out.LabelSelector = nil
 	} else {
 		out.LabelSelector = newVal.(labels.Selector)
 	}
 	if newVal, err := c.DeepCopy(in.FieldSelector); err != nil {
 		return err
+	} else if newVal == nil {
+		out.FieldSelector = nil
 	} else {
 		out.FieldSelector = newVal.(fields.Selector)
 	}
@@ -2124,6 +2130,8 @@ func deepCopy_resource_Quantity(in resource.Quantity, out *resource.Quantity, c
 	if in.Amount != nil {
 		if newVal, err := c.DeepCopy(in.Amount); err != nil {
 			return err
+		} else if newVal == nil {
+			out.Amount = nil
 		} else {
 			out.Amount = newVal.(*inf.Dec)
 		}

pkg/api/v1/deep_copy_generated.go

@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ func deepCopy_resource_Quantity(in resource.Quantity, out *resource.Quantity, c
 	if in.Amount != nil {
 		if newVal, err := c.DeepCopy(in.Amount); err != nil {
 			return err
+		} else if newVal == nil {
+			out.Amount = nil
 		} else {
 			out.Amount = newVal.(*inf.Dec)
 		}

pkg/conversion/cloner.go

@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ func (c *Cloner) RegisterGeneratedDeepCopyFunc(deepCopyFunc interface{}) error {
 
 // DeepCopy will perform a deep copy of a given object.
 func (c *Cloner) DeepCopy(in interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
+	// Can be invalid if we run DeepCopy(X) where X is a nil interface type.
+	// For example, we get an invalid value when someone tries to deep-copy
+	// a nil labels.Selector.
+	// This does not occur if X is nil and is a pointer to a concrete type.
+	if in == nil {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
 	inValue := reflect.ValueOf(in)
 	outValue, err := c.deepCopy(inValue)
 	if err != nil {

pkg/runtime/deep_copy_generator.go

@@ -420,6 +420,8 @@ func (g *deepCopyGenerator) writeDeepCopyForPtr(b *buffer, inField reflect.Struc
 			ifStmt := fmt.Sprintf(ifFormat, inField.Name)
 			b.addLine(ifStmt, indent+1)
 			b.addLine("return err\n", indent+2)
+			b.addLine("} else if newVal == nil {\n", indent+1)
+			b.addLine(fmt.Sprintf("out.%s = nil\n", inField.Name), indent+2)
 			b.addLine("} else {\n", indent+1)
 			assignFormat := "out.%s = newVal.(%s)\n"
 			assignStmt := fmt.Sprintf(assignFormat, inField.Name, g.typeName(inField.Type))
@@ -467,6 +469,8 @@ func (g *deepCopyGenerator) writeDeepCopyForSlice(b *buffer, inField reflect.Str
 			ifStmt := fmt.Sprintf(ifFormat, inField.Name)
 			b.addLine(ifStmt, indent+2)
 			b.addLine("return err\n", indent+3)
+			b.addLine("} else if newVal == nil {\n", indent+2)
+			b.addLine(fmt.Sprintf("out.%s[i] = nil\n", inField.Name), indent+3)
 			b.addLine("} else {\n", indent+2)
 			assignFormat := "out.%s[i] = newVal.(%s)\n"
 			assignStmt := fmt.Sprintf(assignFormat, inField.Name, g.typeName(inField.Type.Elem()))
@@ -508,6 +512,8 @@ func (g *deepCopyGenerator) writeDeepCopyForStruct(b *buffer, inType reflect.Typ
 			ifStmt := fmt.Sprintf(ifFormat, inField.Name)
 			b.addLine(ifStmt, indent)
 			b.addLine("return err\n", indent+1)
+			b.addLine("} else if newVal == nil {\n", indent)
+			b.addLine(fmt.Sprintf("out.%s = nil\n", inField.Name), indent+1)
 			b.addLine("} else {\n", indent)
 			copyFormat := "out.%s = newVal.(%s)\n"
 			copyStmt := fmt.Sprintf(copyFormat, inField.Name, g.typeName(inField.Type))