--- a/src/hotspot/share/jvmci/jvmciCompilerToVM.cpp	Tue Jan 30 16:26:40 2018 +0100
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/jvmci/jvmciCompilerToVM.cpp	Tue Jan 30 16:41:40 2018 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -1433,6 +1433,7 @@
               Deoptimization::reassign_fields(fst.current(), fst.register_map(), scope->objects(), realloc_failures, false);
 
               GrowableArray<ScopeValue*>* local_values = scope->locals();
+              assert(local_values != NULL, "NULL locals");
               typeArrayOop array_oop = oopFactory::new_boolArray(local_values->length(), CHECK_NULL);
               typeArrayHandle array(THREAD, array_oop);
               for (int i = 0; i < local_values->length(); i++) {