diff --git a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
index dd39e63f2..81f87bd60 100644
--- a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ CheckMemoryLeakNoVar instance4;
 // This list needs to be alphabetically sorted so we can run bsearch on it
 static const char * const call_func_white_list[] =
 {
-    "asctime", "asctime_r", "asprintf", "assert", "atof", "atoi", "atol", "clearerr"
+    "access", "asctime", "asctime_r", "asprintf", "assert", "atof", "atoi", "atol", "clearerr"
     , "ctime", "ctime_r", "delete", "fchmod", "fclose", "fcntl"
     , "fdatasync", "feof", "ferror", "fflush", "fgetc", "fgetpos", "fgets"
     , "flock", "for", "fprintf", "fputc", "fputs", "fread", "free", "fscanf", "fseek"
diff --git a/test/testmemleak.cpp b/test/testmemleak.cpp
index 4f8512138..85b61c638 100644
--- a/test/testmemleak.cpp
+++ b/test/testmemleak.cpp
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ private:
 
         static const char * const call_func_white_list[] =
         {
-            "asprintf", "atof", "atoi", "atol", "clearerr", "delete", "fchmod", "fcntl"
+            "access", "asprintf", "atof", "atoi", "atol", "clearerr", "delete", "fchmod", "fcntl"
             , "fdatasync", "feof", "ferror", "fflush", "fgetc", "fgetpos", "fgets"
             , "flock", "for", "fprintf", "fputc", "fputs", "fread", "free", "fscanf", "fseek"
             , "fseeko", "fsetpos", "fstat", "fsync", "ftell", "ftello", "ftruncate"
@@ -1823,6 +1823,52 @@ private:
               "    return;\n"
               "}\n");
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+
+        // checking for access function
+        // http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Testing-File-Access.html
+        // --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        check("void foo ()\n"
+              "{\n"
+              "    struct stat CFileAttr;\n"
+              "    char *cpFile = new char [13];\n"
+              "    strcpy (cpFile, \"testfile.txt\");\n"
+              "    if ( access (cpFile, R_OK) != 0)\n"
+              "    {\n"
+              "        return;\n"
+              "    }\n"
+              "    return;\n"
+              "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("[test.cpp:10]: (error) Memory leak: cpFile\n", errout.str());
+
+        check("void foo ()\n"
+              "{\n"
+              "    struct stat CFileAttr;\n"
+              "    char *cpFile = new char [13];\n"
+              "    strcpy (cpFile, \"testfile.txt\");\n"
+              "    if (access (cpFile, R_OK) != 0)\n"
+              "    {\n"
+              "        delete [] cpFile;\n"
+              "        return;\n"
+              "    }\n"
+              "    return;\n"
+              "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("[test.cpp:11]: (error) Memory leak: cpFile\n", errout.str());
+
+        check("void foo ()\n"
+              "{\n"
+              "    struct stat CFileAttr;\n"
+              "    char *cpFile = new char [13];\n"
+              "    strcpy (cpFile, \"testfile.txt\");\n"
+              "    if (access (cpFile, R_OK) != 0)\n"
+              "    {\n"
+              "        delete [] cpFile;\n"
+              "        return;\n"
+              "    }\n"
+              "    delete [] cpFile;\n"
+              "    return;\n"
+              "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }
 
     void allocfunc1()