diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 17b502b89bd..b40e7babe91 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/vishvananda/netlink v1.1.0
 	golang.org/x/net v0.8.0
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.6.0
-	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.29.0
+	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.29.1
 )
 
 require (
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 8b6c7f690ba..8ad1a667279 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ golang.org/x/sys v0.6.0/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
 golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191204190536-9bdfabe68543/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0=
 google.golang.org/protobuf v1.26.0-rc.1/go.mod h1:jlhhOSvTdKEhbULTjvd4ARK9grFBp09yW+WbY/TyQbw=
 google.golang.org/protobuf v1.28.1/go.mod h1:HV8QOd/L58Z+nl8r43ehVNZIU/HEI6OcFqwMG9pJV4I=
-google.golang.org/protobuf v1.29.0 h1:44S3JjaKmLEE4YIkjzexaP+NzZsudE3Zin5Njn/pYX0=
-google.golang.org/protobuf v1.29.0/go.mod h1:HV8QOd/L58Z+nl8r43ehVNZIU/HEI6OcFqwMG9pJV4I=
+google.golang.org/protobuf v1.29.1 h1:7QBf+IK2gx70Ap/hDsOmam3GE0v9HicjfEdAxE62UoM=
+google.golang.org/protobuf v1.29.1/go.mod h1:HV8QOd/L58Z+nl8r43ehVNZIU/HEI6OcFqwMG9pJV4I=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.2/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0/go.mod h1:RDklbk79AGWmwhnvt/jBztapEOGDOx6ZbXqjP6csGnQ=
diff --git a/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text/decode_number.go b/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text/decode_number.go
index 3dc8e97878b..45c81f0298e 100644
--- a/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text/decode_number.go
+++ b/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text/decode_number.go
@@ -88,15 +88,15 @@ func parseNumber(input []byte) number {
 		neg = true
 		s = s[1:]
 		size++
-		if len(s) == 0 {
-			return number{}
-		}
 		// Consume any whitespace or comments between the
 		// negative sign and the rest of the number
 		lenBefore := len(s)
 		s = consume(s, 0)
 		sep = lenBefore - len(s)
 		size += sep
+		if len(s) == 0 {
+			return number{}
+		}
 	}
 
 	switch {
diff --git a/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/version/version.go b/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/version/version.go
index f6e0119fe9b..daefe110561 100644
--- a/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/version/version.go
+++ b/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/version/version.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ import (
 const (
 	Major      = 1
 	Minor      = 29
-	Patch      = 0
+	Patch      = 1
 	PreRelease = ""
 )
 
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index dc81688a765..2f04299ecb0 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ golang.org/x/sys/execabs
 golang.org/x/sys/internal/unsafeheader
 golang.org/x/sys/unix
 golang.org/x/sys/windows
-# google.golang.org/protobuf v1.29.0
+# google.golang.org/protobuf v1.29.1
 ## explicit; go 1.11
 google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/prototext
 google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/protowire