diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchRequest.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchRequest.java
index 195e146ab7ca1..528be0369166e 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchRequest.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchRequest.java
@@ -183,12 +183,6 @@ public static void readMultiLineFormat(BytesReference data,
             if (nextMarker == -1) {
                 break;
             }
-            // support first line with \n
-            if (nextMarker == 0) {
-                from = nextMarker + 1;
-                continue;
-            }
-
             SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest();
             if (indices != null) {
                 searchRequest.indices(indices);
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchRequestTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchRequestTests.java
index da22ce4c96c1a..afe957e2bf3ee 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchRequestTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchRequestTests.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 import static org.elasticsearch.search.RandomSearchRequestGenerator.randomSearchRequest;
 import static org.elasticsearch.test.EqualsHashCodeTestUtils.checkEqualsAndHashCode;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.instanceOf;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.nullValue;
 
@@ -180,6 +181,15 @@ public void testSimpleAdd4() throws Exception {
         assertThat(request.requests().get(2).routing(), equalTo("123"));
     }
 
+    public void testNoMetadata() throws Exception {
+        MultiSearchRequest request = parseMultiSearchRequest("/org/elasticsearch/action/search/msearch-no-metadata.json");
+        assertThat(request.requests().size(), equalTo(4));
+        for (SearchRequest searchRequest : request.requests()) {
+            assertThat(searchRequest.indices().length, equalTo(0));
+            assertThat(searchRequest.source().query(), instanceOf(MatchAllQueryBuilder.class));
+        }
+    }
+
     public void testResponseErrorToXContent() {
         long tookInMillis = randomIntBetween(1, 1000);
         MultiSearchResponse response = new MultiSearchResponse(
diff --git a/server/src/test/resources/org/elasticsearch/action/search/msearch-no-metadata.json b/server/src/test/resources/org/elasticsearch/action/search/msearch-no-metadata.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a13fa283eeccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/test/resources/org/elasticsearch/action/search/msearch-no-metadata.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+{ "query": {"match_all": {}}}
+
+{ "query": {"match_all": {}}}
+
+{ "query": {"match_all": {}}}
+
+{ "query": {"match_all": {}}}