diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 5af56f680..8d4d4affa 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 11 March 2016: Wouter
 	- Remove warning about unused parameter in event_pluggable.c.
+	- Fix libev usage of dispatch return value.
 
 10 March 2016: Wouter
 	- Fixup backend2str for libev.
diff --git a/util/netevent.c b/util/netevent.c
index 4fcfa9804..bdb357393 100644
--- a/util/netevent.c
+++ b/util/netevent.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ comm_base_dispatch(struct comm_base* b)
 {
 	int retval;
 	retval = ub_event_base_dispatch(b->eb->base);
-	if(retval != 0) {
+	if(retval < 0) {
 		fatal_exit("event_dispatch returned error %d, "
 			"errno is %s", retval, strerror(errno));
 	}