diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 45e52b4cb..9e7eac185 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 * Fixed a bug in WAL tracking with wal_compression. WAL compression writes a kSetCompressionType record which is not associated with any sequence number. As result, WalManager::GetSortedWalsOfType() will skip these WALs and not return them to caller, e.g. Checkpoint, Backup, causing the operations to fail.
 * Avoid a crash if the IDENTITY file is accidentally truncated to empty. A new DB ID will be written and generated on Open.
 * Fixed a possible corruption for users of `manual_wal_flush` and/or `FlushWAL(true /* sync */)`, together with `track_and_verify_wals_in_manifest == true`. For those users, losing unsynced data (e.g., due to power loss) could make future DB opens fail with a `Status::Corruption` complaining about missing WAL data.
+* Fixed a bug in `WriteBatchInternal::Append()` where WAL termination point in write batch was not considered and the function appends an incorrect number of checksums.
 
 ### Public API changes
 * Add new API GetUnixTime in Snapshot class which returns the unix time at which Snapshot is taken.
diff --git a/db/write_batch.cc b/db/write_batch.cc
index 7a863c67f..34a802538 100644
--- a/db/write_batch.cc
+++ b/db/write_batch.cc
@@ -2879,12 +2879,18 @@ Status WriteBatchInternal::Append(WriteBatch* dst, const WriteBatch* src,
     src_flags = src->content_flags_.load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
   }
 
-  if (dst->prot_info_ != nullptr) {
+  if (src->prot_info_ != nullptr) {
+    if (dst->prot_info_ == nullptr) {
+      dst->prot_info_.reset(new WriteBatch::ProtectionInfo());
+    }
     std::copy(src->prot_info_->entries_.begin(),
               src->prot_info_->entries_.begin() + src_count,
               std::back_inserter(dst->prot_info_->entries_));
-  } else if (src->prot_info_ != nullptr) {
-    dst->prot_info_.reset(new WriteBatch::ProtectionInfo(*src->prot_info_));
+  } else if (dst->prot_info_ != nullptr) {
+    // dst has empty prot_info->entries
+    // In this special case, we allow write batch without prot_info to
+    // be appende to write batch with empty prot_info
+    dst->prot_info_ = nullptr;
   }
   SetCount(dst, Count(dst) + src_count);
   assert(src->rep_.size() >= WriteBatchInternal::kHeader);