Minimal reconstruction of reported failure case.

Manually verified that test fails with CL 45911 reverted.

Change-Id: Ia5d11500d91b46ba1eb5d841db3987edb9136c39
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/45970
Run-TryBot: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>