netlink: do not memcpy 0 bytes from a NULL pointer

Although it works in practice it is UB, and might break after a future
compiler update.

This was rewritten in main and the memcpy call no longer exists, so this
is a direct commit to stable/13 before 055776c84a41 is MFC'd.

Discussed with: melifaro
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38927