diff --git a/br/pkg/lightning/mydump/loader.go b/br/pkg/lightning/mydump/loader.go
index fe733d043b6c6..f57d2d0db7761 100644
--- a/br/pkg/lightning/mydump/loader.go
+++ b/br/pkg/lightning/mydump/loader.go
@@ -517,12 +517,30 @@ func (s *mdLoaderSetup) route() error {
 		}
 	}
 	for _, info := range s.tableSchemas {
+		if _, ok := knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema]; !ok {
+			knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema] = &dbInfo{
+				fileMeta: info.FileMeta,
+				count:    1,
+			}
+		}
 		knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema].count++
 	}
 	for _, info := range s.viewSchemas {
+		if _, ok := knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema]; !ok {
+			knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema] = &dbInfo{
+				fileMeta: info.FileMeta,
+				count:    1,
+			}
+		}
 		knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema].count++
 	}
 	for _, info := range s.tableDatas {
+		if _, ok := knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema]; !ok {
+			knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema] = &dbInfo{
+				fileMeta: info.FileMeta,
+				count:    1,
+			}
+		}
 		knownDBNames[info.TableName.Schema].count++
 	}
 
diff --git a/br/pkg/lightning/mydump/loader_test.go b/br/pkg/lightning/mydump/loader_test.go
index 58236d7b626f5..30928ac06e1d1 100644
--- a/br/pkg/lightning/mydump/loader_test.go
+++ b/br/pkg/lightning/mydump/loader_test.go
@@ -688,6 +688,23 @@ func TestRouter(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestRoutesPanic(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newTestMydumpLoaderSuite(t)
+	s.cfg.Routes = []*router.TableRule{
+		{
+			SchemaPattern: "test1",
+			TargetSchema:  "test",
+		},
+	}
+
+	s.touch(t, "test1.dump_test.001.sql")
+	s.touch(t, "test1.dump_test.002.sql")
+	s.touch(t, "test1.dump_test.003.sql")
+
+	_, err := md.NewMyDumpLoader(context.Background(), s.cfg)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}
+
 func TestBadRouterRule(t *testing.T) {
 	s := newTestMydumpLoaderSuite(t)
 
diff --git a/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/config.toml b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/config.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1e6e444e7fe74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/config.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[tikv-importer]
+backend = 'local'
+
+# here we're verifying that routes does not panic for csv data load.
+[[routes]]
+schema-pattern = "test1"
+table-pattern = "d*"
+target-schema = "test"
+target-table = "u"
diff --git a/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.001.sql b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.001.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..22f20b3808dd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.001.sql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+insert into dump_test values (1.0);
diff --git a/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.002.sql b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.002.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e1bfd3fd8f7c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.002.sql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+insert into dump_test values (6.0);
diff --git a/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.003.sql b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.003.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..403e49b03fbf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/data/test1.dump_test.003.sql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+insert into dump_test values (36.0);
diff --git a/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/run.sh b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..37661999b3320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/br/tests/lightning_routes_panic/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Basic check for whether routing rules work
+
+set -eux
+
+run_sql 'DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS test1;'
+run_sql 'DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS test;'
+
+run_sql 'CREATE DATABASE test1;'
+run_sql 'CREATE DATABASE test;'
+run_sql 'CREATE TABLE test1.dump_test (x real primary key);'
+run_sql 'CREATE TABLE test.u (x real primary key);'
+
+run_lightning
+
+run_sql 'SELECT sum(x) FROM test.u;'
+check_contains 'sum(x): 43'
diff --git a/br/tests/run_group.sh b/br/tests/run_group.sh
index 589ed710ec623..41348316fc12e 100755
--- a/br/tests/run_group.sh
+++ b/br/tests/run_group.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ groups=(
 	["G12"]='lightning_drop_other_tables_halfway lightning_duplicate_detection lightning_duplicate_detection_new lightning_duplicate_resolution lightning_duplicate_resolution_incremental lightning_error_summary lightning_examples lightning_exotic_filenames lightning_extend_routes lightning_fail_fast'
 	["G13"]='lightning_fail_fast_on_nonretry_err lightning_file_routing lightning_foreign_key lightning_gcs lightning_generated_columns lightning_ignore_columns lightning_import_compress lightning_incremental lightning_issue_282'
 	["G14"]='lightning_issue_40657 lightning_issue_410 lightning_issue_519 lightning_local_backend lightning_max_incr lightning_max_random lightning_multi_valued_index lightning_new_collation lightning_no_schema'
-	["G15"]='lightning_parquet lightning_partition_incremental lightning_partitioned-table lightning_record_network lightning_reload_cert lightning_restore lightning_routes lightning_row-format-v2 lightning_s3'
+	["G15"]='lightning_parquet lightning_partition_incremental lightning_partitioned-table lightning_record_network lightning_reload_cert lightning_restore lightning_routes lightning_routes_panic lightning_row-format-v2 lightning_s3'
 	["G16"]='lightning_shard_rowid lightning_source_linkfile lightning_sqlmode lightning_tidb_duplicate_data lightning_tidb_rowid lightning_tiflash lightning_tikv_multi_rocksdb lightning_too_many_columns lightning_tool_135'
 	["G17"]='lightning_tool_1420 lightning_tool_1472 lightning_tool_241 lightning_ttl lightning_unused_config_keys lightning_various_types lightning_view lightning_write_batch lightning_write_limit'
 )