diff --git a/src/libpmemobj/tx.c b/src/libpmemobj/tx.c
index 774fa06e3de..63b61f91ec0 100644
--- a/src/libpmemobj/tx.c
+++ b/src/libpmemobj/tx.c
@@ -1829,7 +1829,7 @@ pmemobj_tx_add_common(struct tx *tx, struct tx_range_def *args)
 	 *	snapshot and resume the search from the end of the found
 	 *	offset.
 	 */
-	do {
+	while (r.size != 0) {
 		n = ravl_find(runtime->ranges, &r,
 			RAVL_PREDICATE_GREATER_EQUAL);
 		f = n ? ravl_data(n) : NULL;
@@ -1876,7 +1876,7 @@ pmemobj_tx_add_common(struct tx *tx, struct tx_range_def *args)
 		 * finish...
 		 */
 		r.size = offd < args->size ? args->size - offd : 0;
-	} while (r.size != 0);
+	}
 
 	if (ret != 0) {
 		ERR("out of memory");
diff --git a/src/test/obj_tx_add_range/obj_tx_add_range.c b/src/test/obj_tx_add_range/obj_tx_add_range.c
index 1ab34cd5166..3e985b526db 100644
--- a/src/test/obj_tx_add_range/obj_tx_add_range.c
+++ b/src/test/obj_tx_add_range/obj_tx_add_range.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2015-2017, Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright 2015-2018, Intel Corporation
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ struct overlap_object {
  * do_tx_alloc -- do tx allocation with specified type number
  */
 static PMEMoid
-do_tx_zalloc(PMEMobjpool *pop, int type_num)
+do_tx_zalloc(PMEMobjpool *pop, uint64_t type_num)
 {
 	PMEMoid ret = OID_NULL;
 
@@ -620,6 +620,21 @@ do_tx_add_range_too_large(PMEMobjpool *pop)
 	UT_ASSERTne(errno, 0);
 }
 
+static void
+do_tx_add_range_zero(PMEMobjpool *pop)
+{
+	TOID(struct object) obj;
+	TOID_ASSIGN(obj, do_tx_zalloc(pop, TYPE_OBJ));
+
+	TX_BEGIN(pop) {
+		pmemobj_tx_add_range(obj.oid, 0, 0);
+	} TX_ONABORT {
+		UT_ASSERT(0);
+	} TX_END
+
+	UT_ASSERTne(errno, 0);
+}
+
 int
 main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
@@ -664,6 +679,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		VALGRIND_WRITE_STATS;
 		do_tx_add_huge_range_abort(pop);
 		VALGRIND_WRITE_STATS;
+		do_tx_add_range_zero(pop);
+		VALGRIND_WRITE_STATS;
 		do_tx_xadd_range_commit(pop);
 		pmemobj_close(pop);
 	}
diff --git a/src/test/obj_tx_add_range/pmemcheck1.log.match b/src/test/obj_tx_add_range/pmemcheck1.log.match
index 6ebe712172e..e801c7dde3d 100644
--- a/src/test/obj_tx_add_range/pmemcheck1.log.match
+++ b/src/test/obj_tx_add_range/pmemcheck1.log.match
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
 ==$(*)== Number of stores not made persistent: 0
 ==$(*)== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors
 ==$(*)== 
+==$(*)== Number of stores not made persistent: 0
+==$(*)== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors
+==$(*)== 
 ==$(*)== 
 ==$(*)== Number of stores not made persistent: 1
 ==$(*)== Stores not made persistent properly: