They are guaranteed to be non-nil, no point in inserting
nil checks for them.

Fixes #15390

Change-Id: I3b9a0f2319affc2139dcc446d0a56c6785ae5a86
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22291Reviewed-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>