diff --git a/src/delta/delta.c b/src/delta/delta.c
index 6d99d75d3d..9c8841d46d 100644
--- a/src/delta/delta.c
+++ b/src/delta/delta.c
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ static int process_suffix_chop(const char *arg) {
                 if (suffix) {
                         suffix += strspn(suffix, "/");
                         if (*suffix)
-                                return process_suffix(suffix, NULL);
+                                return process_suffix(suffix, p);
                         else
                                 return process_suffixes(arg);
                 }