missing null check, would crash blender when loading some files

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c b/source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
index d9df1ee4419..3284f8efdf2 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
@@ -8116,11 +8116,13 @@ static void do_versions(FileData *fd, Library *lib, Main *main)
 				/* check if top parent has compound shape set and if yes, set this object
 				   to compound shaper as well (was the behaviour before, now it's optional) */
 				Object *parent= newlibadr(fd, lib, ob->parent);
-				while (parent->parent != NULL) {
-					parent = newlibadr(fd, lib, parent->parent);
+				if(parent) {
+					while (parent->parent != NULL) {
+						parent = newlibadr(fd, lib, parent->parent);
+					}
+					if (parent->gameflag & OB_CHILD)
+						ob->gameflag |= OB_CHILD;
 				}
-				if (parent->gameflag & OB_CHILD)
-					ob->gameflag |= OB_CHILD;
 			}
 		}
 		for(wrld=main->world.first; wrld; wrld= wrld->id.next) {