diff --git a/storage/innobase/page/page0zip.cc b/storage/innobase/page/page0zip.cc
index ea9926fe139..271ef4a787e 100644
--- a/storage/innobase/page/page0zip.cc
+++ b/storage/innobase/page/page0zip.cc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Copyright (c) 2005, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2012, Facebook Inc.
-Copyright (c) 2014, 2017, MariaDB Corporation.
+Copyright (c) 2014, 2018, MariaDB Corporation.
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
@@ -3714,8 +3714,9 @@ page_zip_write_rec(
 	/* Copy the delete mark. */
 	if (rec_get_deleted_flag(rec, TRUE)) {
 		/* In delete-marked records, DB_TRX_ID must
-		always refer to an existing undo log record. */
-		ut_ad(!dict_index_is_clust(index)
+		always refer to an existing undo log record.
+		On non-leaf pages, the delete-mark flag is garbage. */
+		ut_ad(!index->is_primary() || !page_is_leaf(page)
 		      || row_get_rec_trx_id(rec, index, offsets));
 		*slot |= PAGE_ZIP_DIR_SLOT_DEL >> 8;
 	} else {