diff --git a/doc/fixes36.2 b/doc/fixes36.2
index 1f222f849..fc7a7218e 100644
--- a/doc/fixes36.2
+++ b/doc/fixes36.2
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Fixes to Post-3.6.1 Problems that Were Exposed Via git Repository
 fix access violation when --debug:xxxx has no other args after it
 Setting the inverse attribute for gold had the space before "$:" 
 	getting highlighted along with the gold field
+sortloot segfaulted when filtering a subset of items (seen with 'A' command)
 
 
 Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes
diff --git a/src/invent.c b/src/invent.c
index c2d4861a8..9ea974698 100644
--- a/src/invent.c
+++ b/src/invent.c
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ boolean FDECL((*filterfunc), (OBJ_P));
     augment_filter = (mode & SORTLOOT_PETRIFY) ? TRUE : FALSE;
     mode &= ~SORTLOOT_PETRIFY; /* remove flag, leaving mode */
     /* populate aliarray[0..n-1] */
-    for (i = 0, o = *olist; o; ++i, o = by_nexthere ? o->nexthere : o->nobj) {
+    for (i = 0, o = *olist; o; o = by_nexthere ? o->nexthere : o->nobj) {
         if (filterfunc && !(*filterfunc)(o)
             /* caller may be asking us to override filterfunc (in order
                to do a cockatrice corpse touch check during pickup even
@@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ boolean FDECL((*filterfunc), (OBJ_P));
         sliarray[i].obj = o, sliarray[i].indx = (int) i;
         sliarray[i].str = (char *) 0;
         sliarray[i].orderclass = sliarray[i].subclass = sliarray[i].disco = 0;
+        ++i;
     }
     n = i;
     /* add a terminator so that we don't have to pass 'n' back to caller */