diff --git a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
index ed7b264e8..d3fbfab8e 100644
--- a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
@@ -694,6 +694,7 @@ const char * CheckMemoryLeakInFunction::call_func(const Token *tok, std::list<co
     }
 
     // Check if this is a function that allocates memory..
+    if (Token::Match(tok->tokAt(-3), "[;{}] %varid% = %var% (", varid))
     {
         const Token *ftok = _tokenizer->getFunctionTokenByName(funcname.c_str());
         AllocType a = functionReturnType(ftok);
diff --git a/test/testmemleak.cpp b/test/testmemleak.cpp
index fc7b3acae..3441c864d 100644
--- a/test/testmemleak.cpp
+++ b/test/testmemleak.cpp
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(allocfunc3);
         TEST_CASE(allocfunc4);
         TEST_CASE(allocfunc5);
+        TEST_CASE(allocfunc6);
 
         TEST_CASE(throw1);
         TEST_CASE(throw2);
@@ -1808,10 +1809,28 @@ private:
               "   free(tmp);\n"
               "}\n");
         TODO_ASSERT_EQUALS(std::string(""), errout.str());
-
     }
 
 
+    void allocfunc6()
+    {
+        check("static FILE* data()\n"
+              "{\n"
+              "    return fopen(\"data.txt\",\"rt\");\n"
+              "}\n"
+              "\n"
+              "static void foo()\n"
+              "{\n"
+              "    char* expr;\n"
+              "    func(&expr);\n"
+              "\n"
+              "    FILE *f = data();\n"
+              "    fclose(f);\n"
+              "\n"
+              "    free(expr);\n"
+              "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(std::string(""), errout.str());
+    }