From 8933f573f89248b1a956eae737c5f02838caf245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren Shepherd <darren@rancher.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:25:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Don't filter out nil objects

---
 controller/generic_controller.go | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/controller/generic_controller.go b/controller/generic_controller.go
index 2c43a8e6..9057ea8e 100644
--- a/controller/generic_controller.go
+++ b/controller/generic_controller.go
@@ -73,12 +73,13 @@ func (g *genericController) AddHandler(ctx context.Context, name string, handler
 }
 
 func isNamespace(namespace string, obj runtime.Object) bool {
-	if namespace == "" {
+	if namespace == "" || obj == nil {
 		return true
 	}
 	meta, err := meta.Accessor(obj)
 	if err != nil {
-		return false
+		// if you can't figure out the namespace, just let it through
+		return true
 	}
 	return meta.GetNamespace() == namespace
 }