diff --git a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
index 0accf25c0..f5e332d71 100644
--- a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
@@ -2275,7 +2275,8 @@ void CheckMemoryLeakInFunction::checkReallocUsage()
                 parameterVarIds.find(tok->varId()) == parameterVarIds.end())
             {
                 // Check that another copy of the pointer wasn't saved earlier in the function
-                if (!Token::findmatch(startOfFunction, "%var% = %varid% ;", tok->varId()))
+                if (!Token::findmatch(startOfFunction, "%var% = %varid% ;", tok->varId()) &&
+                    !Token::findmatch(startOfFunction, "[{};] %varid% = %var% [;=]", tok->varId()))
                     memleakUponReallocFailureError(tok, tok->str());
             }
         }
diff --git a/test/testmemleak.cpp b/test/testmemleak.cpp
index deab61f41..b2704e447 100644
--- a/test/testmemleak.cpp
+++ b/test/testmemleak.cpp
@@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(realloc7);
         TEST_CASE(realloc8);
         TEST_CASE(realloc9);
+        TEST_CASE(realloc10);
 
         TEST_CASE(assign);
 
@@ -2077,6 +2078,17 @@ private:
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }
 
+    void realloc10()
+    {
+        check("void foo() {\n"
+              "    char *pa, *pb;\n"
+              "    pa = pb = malloc(10);\n"
+              "    pa = realloc(pa, 20);"
+              "    exit();\n"
+              "}\n", false);
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+    }
+
     void assign()
     {
         check("void foo()\n"