🐛 Fix remediation code

[laurentsimon]

Fix remediation code. The if statement was incorrect: we were not returning in case there was an error. b was nil in this case and caused a nil pointer.

Fix remediation code

closes #1942

[azeemshaikh38]

Not sure how this fixes the nil-ptr dereference, but code LG to submit. For the sake of posterity, could you explain in the PR description why this was causing code to panic?

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #1947 (e8b6d3b) into main (1a2f088) will decrease coverage by 0.00%.
The diff coverage is 0.00%.

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- Misses       3198     3199       +1     
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[laurentsimon]

Not sure how this fixes the nil-ptr dereference, but code LG to submit. For the sake of posterity, could you explain in the PR description why this was causing code to panic?

Done in PR description.

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