diff --git a/openerp/osv/orm.py b/openerp/osv/orm.py
index e9f4d8f59bd..8fe7bb1df7f 100644
--- a/openerp/osv/orm.py
+++ b/openerp/osv/orm.py
@@ -5083,7 +5083,14 @@ class BaseModel(object):
             # shortcut read if we only want the ids
             return [{'id': id} for id in record_ids]
 
-        result = self.read(cr, uid, record_ids, fields, context=context)
+        # read() ignores active_test, but it would forward it to any downstream search call
+        # (e.g. for x2m or function fields), and this is not the desired behavior, the flag
+        # was presumably only meant for the main search().
+        # TODO: Move this to read() directly?                                                                                                
+        read_ctx = dict(context or {})                                                                                                       
+        read_ctx.pop('active_test', None)                                                                                                    
+                                                                                                                                             
+        result = self.read(cr, uid, record_ids, fields, context=read_ctx) 
         if len(result) <= 1:
             return result