diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index b1a556a000..837a5925f0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  * (Hadoop) Close Clusters and Sessions in Hadoop Input/Output classes (CASSANDRA-1837)
  * Fix sstableloader not working with upper case keyspace name (CASSANDRA-10806)
 Merged from 2.2:
+ * jemalloc detection fails due to quoting issues in regexv (CASSANDRA-10946)
  * (cqlsh) show correct column names for empty result sets (CASSANDRA-9813)
  * Add new types to Stress (CASSANDRA-9556)
  * Add property to allow listening on broadcast interface (CASSANDRA-9748)
diff --git a/bin/cassandra b/bin/cassandra
index 0bbd9fb4e3..c15c1abf4d 100755
--- a/bin/cassandra
+++ b/bin/cassandra
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ case "`uname -s`" in
             which ldconfig > /dev/null 2>&1
             if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
                 # e.g. for CentOS
-                dirs="/lib64 /lib /usr/lib64 /usr/lib `ldconfig -v 2>/dev/null | grep -v ^$'\t' | sed 's/^\([^:]*\):.*$/\1/'`"
+                dirs="/lib64 /lib /usr/lib64 /usr/lib `ldconfig -v 2>/dev/null | grep -v '^\s' | sed 's/^\([^:]*\):.*$/\1/'`"
             else
                 # e.g. for Debian, OpenSUSE
                 dirs="/lib64 /lib /usr/lib64 /usr/lib `cat /etc/ld.so.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf | grep '^/'`"