diff --git a/databases/memcached/files/patch-items.c b/databases/memcached/files/patch-items.c
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index 000000000000..6bebb9cf2c41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/memcached/files/patch-items.c
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- items.c.orig	2015-10-27 17:57:02 UTC
++++ items.c
+@@ -1138,7 +1138,6 @@ static item *crawler_crawl_q(item *it) {
+     item **head, **tail;
+     assert(it->it_flags == 1);
+     assert(it->nbytes == 0);
+-    assert(it->slabs_clsid < LARGEST_ID);
+     head = &heads[it->slabs_clsid];
+     tail = &tails[it->slabs_clsid];
+