Merge branch 'blender-v3.1-release'

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/constraint.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/constraint.c
index 47669387fd1..2afe4dda35c 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/constraint.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/constraint.c
@@ -529,8 +529,8 @@ static void contarget_get_mesh_mat(Object *ob, const char *substring, float mat[
   float vec[3] = {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f};
   float normal[3] = {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f};
   float weightsum = 0.0f;
-  const float(*vert_normals)[3] = BKE_mesh_vertex_normals_ensure(me_eval);
   if (me_eval) {
+    const float(*vert_normals)[3] = BKE_mesh_vertex_normals_ensure(me_eval);
     const MDeformVert *dvert = CustomData_get_layer(&me_eval->vdata, CD_MDEFORMVERT);
     int numVerts = me_eval->totvert;