diff --git a/src/proxy.c b/src/proxy.c
index b690a81fe..fb62b7c04 100644
--- a/src/proxy.c
+++ b/src/proxy.c
@@ -1141,7 +1141,9 @@ int stream_set_backend(struct stream *s, struct proxy *be)
 	 * be more reliable to store the list of analysers that have been run,
 	 * but what we do here is OK for now.
 	 */
-	s->req.analysers |= be->be_req_ana & ~strm_li(s)->analysers;
+	s->req.analysers |= be->be_req_ana;
+	if (strm_li(s))
+		s->req.analysers &= ~strm_li(s)->analysers;
 
 	/* If the target backend requires HTTP processing, we have to allocate
 	 * the HTTP transaction and hdr_idx if we did not have one.