diff --git a/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/ParallelBatchImporter.java b/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/ParallelBatchImporter.java
index a355fe6e5bef9..dde3559acd88d 100644
--- a/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/ParallelBatchImporter.java
+++ b/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/ParallelBatchImporter.java
@@ -276,7 +276,8 @@ private void importRelationships( NodeRelationshipCache nodeRelationshipCache,
             // Stage 5a -- link relationship chains together for dense nodes
             nodeRelationshipCache.setForwardScan( false );
             executeStages( new RelationshipLinkbackStage( topic, config, neoStore.getRelationshipStore(),
-                    nodeRelationshipCache, nextRelationshipId, true/*dense*/ ) );
+                    nodeRelationshipCache, nextRelationshipId,
+                    relationshipStage.getNextRelationshipId(), true/*dense*/ ) );
             nextRelationshipId = relationshipStage.getNextRelationshipId();
             nodeRelationshipCache.clearChangedChunks( true/*dense*/ ); // cheap higher level clearing
         }
@@ -290,7 +291,7 @@ private void importRelationships( NodeRelationshipCache nodeRelationshipCache,
         // Stage 5b -- link relationship chains together for sparse nodes
         nodeRelationshipCache.setForwardScan( false );
         executeStages( new RelationshipLinkbackStage( topic, config, neoStore.getRelationshipStore(),
-                nodeRelationshipCache, 0, false/*sparse*/ ) );
+                nodeRelationshipCache, 0, nextRelationshipId, false/*sparse*/ ) );
 
         if ( minorityRelationshipTypes.length > 0 )
         {
diff --git a/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/RelationshipLinkbackStage.java b/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/RelationshipLinkbackStage.java
index 355118057205d..f3ac9e2cd9772 100644
--- a/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/RelationshipLinkbackStage.java
+++ b/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/RelationshipLinkbackStage.java
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@
 public class RelationshipLinkbackStage extends Stage
 {
     public RelationshipLinkbackStage( String topic, Configuration config, RelationshipStore store,
-            NodeRelationshipCache cache, long firstRelationshipId, boolean denseNodes )
+            NodeRelationshipCache cache, long lowRelationshipId, long highRelationshipId, boolean denseNodes )
     {
         super( "Relationship --> Relationship" + topic, config );
-        add( new ReadRecordsStep<>( control(), config, store, backwards( store.getHighId(), firstRelationshipId ) ) );
+        add( new ReadRecordsStep<>( control(), config, store, backwards( highRelationshipId, lowRelationshipId ) ) );
         add( new RecordProcessorStep<>( control(), "LINK", config,
                 new RelationshipLinkbackProcessor( cache, denseNodes ), false ) );
         add( new UpdateRecordsStep<>( control(), config, store ) );
diff --git a/community/kernel/src/test/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/RelationshipLinkbackStageTest.java b/community/kernel/src/test/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/RelationshipLinkbackStageTest.java
index a867686a45278..bcdfebb277180 100644
--- a/community/kernel/src/test/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/RelationshipLinkbackStageTest.java
+++ b/community/kernel/src/test/java/org/neo4j/unsafe/impl/batchimport/RelationshipLinkbackStageTest.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ public void reservedIdIsSkipped() throws Exception
         long highId = 5;
         RelationshipStore store = StoreWithReservedId.newRelationshipStoreMock( highId );
         RelationshipLinkbackStage stage = new RelationshipLinkbackStage( "Test",
-                Configuration.DEFAULT, store, newCache(), 0, false );
+                Configuration.DEFAULT, store, newCache(), 0, highId, false );
 
         ExecutionSupervisors.superviseExecution( ExecutionMonitors.invisible(), Configuration.DEFAULT, stage );