Catalog operator pod crashes with panic invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

Issue

• The catalog-operator pod crashes unpacking bundles with the following error:

  level=debug msg="unpacking bundles" id=aYHGB namespace=openshift-storage
  panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
  [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x38 pc=0x1d81a26]
  

• The catalog-operator pod crashes during SNO cluster installation with errors like below in the pod logs.

  level=info msg="starting workers..."
  panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
  [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x38 pc=0x1d761e6]
  
  goroutine 469 [running]:
  github.com/operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager/pkg/controller/bundle.sortUnpackJobs.func1(0xc002bdca20?, 0x0?)
       /build/vendor/github.com/operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager/pkg/controller/bundle/bundle_unpacker.go:844 +0xc6
  sort.insertionSort_func({0xc002b7cfb0?, 0xc0029fffe0?}, 0x0, 0x3)
       /usr/lib/golang/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:12 +0xb1
   sort.pdqsort_func({0xc002b7cfb0?, 0xc0029fffe0?}, 0x7f07987eab38?, 0x18?, 0xc001e80000?)
       /usr/lib/golang/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:73 +0x2dd
  

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