Many callers of GetValidDSlot currently assume they will always get
back a valid dcache, and will panic on getting NULL. However, for many
of these callers, handling the NULL case is quite easy, since the
failure to get a dcache can just result in an error directly, or
obtaining the dcache is best-effort or just an optimization.
This commit just handles the "easy" cases; some other callers require
more complex handling.