diff --git a/test/testsuite-04.units/logs-filtering.service b/test/testsuite-04.units/logs-filtering.service
index 06210868fd2..6e2af9a2a14 100644
--- a/test/testsuite-04.units/logs-filtering.service
+++ b/test/testsuite-04.units/logs-filtering.service
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 Description=Log filtering unit
 
 [Service]
-ExecStart=sh -c 'while true; do echo "Logging from the service, and ~more~"; sleep .25; done'
+ExecStart=sh -c 'while true; do echo "Logging from the service, and ~more~ foo bar"; sleep .25; done'
 SyslogLevel=notice
diff --git a/test/units/testsuite-04.LogFilterPatterns.sh b/test/units/testsuite-04.LogFilterPatterns.sh
index 3f889d1294a..41cf8a1fa1d 100755
--- a/test/units/testsuite-04.LogFilterPatterns.sh
+++ b/test/units/testsuite-04.LogFilterPatterns.sh
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ if is_xattr_supported; then
     add_logs_filtering_override "logs-filtering.service" "10-allow-with-escape-char" "\\\\x7emore~"
     [[ -n $(run_service_and_fetch_logs "logs-filtering.service") ]]
 
+    add_logs_filtering_override "logs-filtering.service" "11-reset" ""
+    add_logs_filtering_override "logs-filtering.service" "12-allow-with-spaces" "foo bar"
+    [[ -n $(run_service_and_fetch_logs "logs-filtering.service") ]]
+
     add_logs_filtering_override "delegated-cgroup-filtering.service" "00-allow-all" ".*"
     [[ -n $(run_service_and_fetch_logs "delegated-cgroup-filtering.service") ]]