OMG. Fixed in 1.229. I'll post 1.229 today.

[FIXED HUDSON-1936] Start-up "Hudson is preparing to work" screen doesn't render with AssertionFailure.


git-svn-id: https://hudson.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/trunk/hudson/main@10377 71c3de6d-444a-0410-be80-ed276b4c234a

core/src/main/java/hudson/Functions.java

@@ -456,6 +456,9 @@ public class Functions {
      * Otherwise it will perform no check and that problem is hard to notice.
      */
     public static void checkPermission(Object object, Permission permission) throws IOException, ServletException {
+        if (permission == null)
+            return;
+        
         if (object instanceof AccessControlled)
             checkPermission((AccessControlled) object,permission);
         else {