diff --git a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
index 06e5023e7..c7cc629fa 100644
--- a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
@@ -2188,6 +2188,8 @@ void CheckMemoryLeakInFunction::checkReallocUsage()
     const Token *tok = _tokenizer->tokens();
     while ((tok = Token::findmatch(tok, ") const| {")))
     {
+        const Token *startOfFunction = tok;
+
         // Record the varid's of the function parameters
         std::set<unsigned int> parameterVarIds;
         for (tok = tok->link(); tok && tok->str() != "{"; tok = tok->next())
@@ -2213,7 +2215,9 @@ void CheckMemoryLeakInFunction::checkReallocUsage()
                 tok->varId() == tok->tokAt(4)->varId() &&
                 parameterVarIds.find(tok->varId()) == parameterVarIds.end())
             {
-                memleakUponReallocFailureError(tok, tok->str());
+                // Check that another copy of the pointer wasn't saved earlier in the function
+                if (!Token::findmatch(startOfFunction, "%var% = %varid% ;", tok->varId()))
+                    memleakUponReallocFailureError(tok, tok->str());
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/test/testmemleak.cpp b/test/testmemleak.cpp
index 07058e0ec..22a25ff3a 100644
--- a/test/testmemleak.cpp
+++ b/test/testmemleak.cpp
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(realloc5);
         TEST_CASE(realloc6);
         TEST_CASE(realloc7);
+        TEST_CASE(realloc8);
 
         TEST_CASE(assign);
 
@@ -2028,6 +2029,19 @@ private:
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }
 
+    void realloc8()
+    {
+        check("void foo()\n"
+              "{\n"
+              "    char *origBuf = m_buf;\n"
+              "    m_buf = (char *) realloc (m_buf, m_capacity + growBy);\n"
+              "    if (!m_buf) {\n"
+              "        m_buf = origBuf;\n"
+              "    }\n"
+              "}\n", false);
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+    }
+
     void assign()
     {
         check("void foo()\n"