diff --git a/src/checkmemoryleak.cpp b/src/checkmemoryleak.cpp
index ac6288170..3ba113228 100644
--- a/src/checkmemoryleak.cpp
+++ b/src/checkmemoryleak.cpp
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ const char * CheckMemoryLeakInFunction::call_func(const Token *tok, std::list<co
 
     // I/O functions that are not allocating nor deallocating memory..
     if (Token::Match(tok, "read|readv|pread|readahead|write|writev|pwrite|lseek") ||
-        Token::Match(tok, "ioctl|fcntl|flock|lockf|ftruncate|fsync|fdatasync") ||
+        Token::Match(tok, "ioctl|fchmod|fcntl|flock|lockf|ftruncate|fsync|fdatasync") ||
         Token::Match(tok, "fstat|sync_file_range|posix_fallocate|posix_fadvise"))
         return 0;
 
diff --git a/test/testmemleak.cpp b/test/testmemleak.cpp
index cbedbabb5..c972c1f7c 100644
--- a/test/testmemleak.cpp
+++ b/test/testmemleak.cpp
@@ -2316,8 +2316,9 @@ private:
               "    lockf(fd, cmd, len);\n"
               "    ftruncate(fd, len);\n"
               "    fstat(fd, buf);\n"
+              "    fchmod(fd, mode);\n"
               "}\n");
-        ASSERT_EQUALS("[test.cpp:23]: (error) Resource leak: fd\n", errout.str());
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("[test.cpp:24]: (error) Resource leak: fd\n", errout.str());
     }
 
     void opendir_function()