From 085066d5555e0419c986b419b57924e48e7d2b55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle Spier-Swenson <kyleshome@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 08:14:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Client topics only check for deleted objects when an object
 was actually passed (#37866)

---
 code/modules/client/client_procs.dm | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/code/modules/client/client_procs.dm b/code/modules/client/client_procs.dm
index 11c3e3c899..cefaa9c745 100644
--- a/code/modules/client/client_procs.dm
+++ b/code/modules/client/client_procs.dm
@@ -115,10 +115,10 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_INIT(blacklisted_builds, list(
 	switch(href_list["action"])
 		if("openLink")
 			src << link(href_list["link"])
-
-	var/datum/real_src = hsrc
-	if(QDELETED(real_src))
-		return
+	if (hsrc)
+		var/datum/real_src = hsrc
+		if(QDELETED(real_src))
+			return
 
 	..()	//redirect to hsrc.Topic()