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diff --git a/cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c b/cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c
index 9796eb9e56..c6693016d4 100644
--- a/cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c
+++ b/cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c
@@ -171,6 +171,17 @@ Objects_Maximum _Objects_Extend_information(
if ( old_maximum > extend_count ) {
/*
+ * Coverity thinks there is a way for this to be NULL (CID #26033).
+ * After much time spent analyzing this, no one has identified the
+ * conditions where this can actually occur. Adding this _Assert ensures
+ * that it is never NULL. If this assert is triggered, condition
+ * generating this case will have been identified and it can be revisted.
+ * This is being done out of an abundance of caution since we could have
+ * easily flagged this as a false positive and ignored it completely.
+ */
+ _Assert(information->object_blocks != NULL);
+
+ /*
* Copy each section of the table over. This has to be performed as
* separate parts as size of each block has changed.
*/