diff --git a/sql/item_cmpfunc.cc b/sql/item_cmpfunc.cc
index 7f50e5d0163..2c76c7ec7b3 100644
--- a/sql/item_cmpfunc.cc
+++ b/sql/item_cmpfunc.cc
@@ -2460,7 +2460,7 @@ bool Item_func_like::fix_fields(THD *thd, TABLE_LIST *tlist, Item ** ref)
           code instead of Unicode code as "escape" argument.
           Convert to "cs" if charset of escape differs.
         */
-        CHARSET_INFO *cs= cmp_collation.collation;
+        CHARSET_INFO *cs= cmp.cmp_collation.collation;
         uint32 unused;
         if (escape_str->needs_conversion(escape_str->length(),
                                          escape_str->charset(), cs, &unused))