From cf277ebf6c706215b127de4b2bf191bc4f74a0e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rdb <git@rdb.name>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 12:13:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maya2egg: fix a potential crash (see #434)

---
 pandatool/src/mayaegg/mayaEggLoader.cxx | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandatool/src/mayaegg/mayaEggLoader.cxx b/pandatool/src/mayaegg/mayaEggLoader.cxx
index 68fcb8d0f7..a60e5d2372 100644
--- a/pandatool/src/mayaegg/mayaEggLoader.cxx
+++ b/pandatool/src/mayaegg/mayaEggLoader.cxx
@@ -975,7 +975,9 @@ MayaEggMesh *MayaEggLoader::GetMesh(EggVertexPool *pool, EggGroup *parent)
   MayaEggMesh *result = _mesh_tab[parent];
   if (result == 0) {
     result = new MayaEggMesh;
-    result->_name = parent->get_name();
+    if (parent != nullptr) {
+      result->_name = parent->get_name();
+    }
     result->_pool = pool;
     result->_parent = parent;
     result->_vert_count = 0;