pathologicalevents: fix checks order in TestAllowedRepeatedEvents

check for nil first.

pkg/monitortestlibrary/pathologicaleventlibrary/duplicated_events_test.go

@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ func TestAllowedRepeatedEvents(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 
 			if test.expectedAllowName != "" {
-				assert.True(t, allowed, "duplicated event should have been allowed, but we matched: %s", matchedAllowedDupe.Name())
 				require.NotNil(t, matchedAllowedDupe, "an allowed dupe even should have been returned")
+				assert.True(t, allowed, "duplicated event should have been allowed, but we matched: %s", matchedAllowedDupe.Name())
 				assert.Equal(t, test.expectedAllowName, matchedAllowedDupe.Name(), "duplicated event was not allowed by the correct SimplePathologicalEventMatcher")
 			} else {
 				require.False(t, allowed, "duplicated event should not have been allowed")