diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index d2b76a0cd..accfaade9 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 4 March 2021: Wouter
 	- iana portlist update.
+	- Fix spurious errors about "Could not generate request: out of
+	  memory".  The mesh detect cycle routine no longer wrongly stops
+	  the check when the calling mesh state is unique.
 
 26 February 2021: George
 	- Fix for #367: rc_ports don't have ub_sock; skip cleaning up.
diff --git a/services/mesh.c b/services/mesh.c
index 91d23debf..88b3d15d0 100644
--- a/services/mesh.c
+++ b/services/mesh.c
@@ -1813,8 +1813,7 @@ mesh_detect_cycle(struct module_qstate* qstate, struct query_info* qinfo,
 {
 	struct mesh_area* mesh = qstate->env->mesh;
 	struct mesh_state* dep_m = NULL;
-	if(!mesh_state_is_unique(qstate->mesh_info))
-		dep_m = mesh_area_find(mesh, NULL, qinfo, flags, prime, valrec);
+	dep_m = mesh_area_find(mesh, NULL, qinfo, flags, prime, valrec);
 	return mesh_detect_cycle_found(qstate, dep_m);
 }