diff --git a/mysql-test/suite/innodb/r/innodb-autoinc.result b/mysql-test/suite/innodb/r/innodb-autoinc.result
index a36b3a1a865..350c7ebd541 100644
--- a/mysql-test/suite/innodb/r/innodb-autoinc.result
+++ b/mysql-test/suite/innodb/r/innodb-autoinc.result
@@ -1244,3 +1244,16 @@ t1	CREATE TABLE `t1` (
   PRIMARY KEY (`c1`)
 ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=7 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
 DROP TABLE t1;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;
+Warnings:
+Note	1051	Unknown table 't1'
+CREATE TABLE t1(c1 BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY) ENGINE=InnoDB;
+INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (NULL);
+INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (18446744073709551615);
+SHOW CREATE TABLE t1;
+Table	Create Table
+t1	CREATE TABLE `t1` (
+  `c1` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
+  PRIMARY KEY (`c1`)
+) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=18446744073709551615 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
+DROP TABLE t1;
diff --git a/mysql-test/suite/innodb/t/innodb-autoinc.test b/mysql-test/suite/innodb/t/innodb-autoinc.test
index a8e853baef7..da0783bdc7c 100644
--- a/mysql-test/suite/innodb/t/innodb-autoinc.test
+++ b/mysql-test/suite/innodb/t/innodb-autoinc.test
@@ -665,7 +665,17 @@ SELECT * FROM t1;
 SHOW CREATE TABLE t1;
 DROP TABLE t1;
 
-
+##
+# 55277: Failing assertion: auto_inc > 0
+#
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;
+CREATE TABLE t1(c1 BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY) ENGINE=InnoDB;
+INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (NULL);
+INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (18446744073709551615);
+# Restart the server
+-- source include/restart_mysqld.inc
+SHOW CREATE TABLE t1;
+DROP TABLE t1;
 #
 # restore environment to the state it was before this test execution
 #
diff --git a/storage/innobase/handler/ha_innodb.cc b/storage/innobase/handler/ha_innodb.cc
index ab9df9a0272..e1b9f9e224f 100644
--- a/storage/innobase/handler/ha_innodb.cc
+++ b/storage/innobase/handler/ha_innodb.cc
@@ -3528,12 +3528,19 @@ ha_innobase::innobase_initialize_autoinc()
 		err = row_search_max_autoinc(index, col_name, &read_auto_inc);
 
 		switch (err) {
-		case DB_SUCCESS:
-			/* At the this stage we do not know the increment
-			or the offset, so use a default increment of 1. */
-			auto_inc = read_auto_inc + 1;
-			break;
+		case DB_SUCCESS: {
+			ulonglong	col_max_value;
 
+			col_max_value = innobase_get_int_col_max_value(field);
+
+			/* At the this stage we do not know the increment
+			nor the offset, so use a default increment of 1. */
+
+			auto_inc = innobase_next_autoinc(
+				read_auto_inc, 1, 1, col_max_value);
+
+			break;
+		}
 		case DB_RECORD_NOT_FOUND:
 			ut_print_timestamp(stderr);
 			fprintf(stderr, "  InnoDB: MySQL and InnoDB data "
@@ -3828,8 +3835,6 @@ retry:
 			dict_table_get_format(prebuilt->table));
 	}
 
-	info(HA_STATUS_NO_LOCK | HA_STATUS_VARIABLE | HA_STATUS_CONST);
-
 	/* Only if the table has an AUTOINC column. */
 	if (prebuilt->table != NULL && table->found_next_number_field != NULL) {
 		dict_table_autoinc_lock(prebuilt->table);
@@ -3846,6 +3851,8 @@ retry:
 		dict_table_autoinc_unlock(prebuilt->table);
 	}
 
+	info(HA_STATUS_NO_LOCK | HA_STATUS_VARIABLE | HA_STATUS_CONST);
+
 	DBUG_RETURN(0);
 }