diff --git a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
index 91516f2ed..bce233230 100644
--- a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
@@ -152,7 +152,12 @@ CheckMemoryLeak::AllocType CheckMemoryLeak::getAllocationType(const Token *tok2,
         return File;
 
     if (Token::Match(tok2, "open|openat|creat|mkstemp|mkostemp ("))
+    {
+        // is there a user function with this name?
+        if (tokenizer && Token::findmatch(tokenizer->tokens(), ("%type% *|&| " + tok2->str()).c_str()))
+            return No;
         return Fd;
+    }
 
     if (Token::simpleMatch(tok2, "popen ("))
         return Pipe;
diff --git a/test/testmemleak.cpp b/test/testmemleak.cpp
index d7efc5a3a..85f4b22d6 100644
--- a/test/testmemleak.cpp
+++ b/test/testmemleak.cpp
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ private:
     void run()
     {
         TEST_CASE(testFunctionReturnType);
+        TEST_CASE(open);
     }
 
     CheckMemoryLeak::AllocType functionReturnType(const char code[])
@@ -164,6 +165,27 @@ private:
             ASSERT_EQUALS(CheckMemoryLeak::NewArray, functionReturnType(code));
         }
     }
+
+    void open()
+    {
+        const char code[] = "class A {\n"
+                            "  static int open() {\n"
+                            "    return 1;\n"
+                            "  }\n"
+                            "\n"
+                            "  A() {\n"
+                            "    int ret = open();\n"
+                            "  }\n"
+                            "};\n";
+        Tokenizer tokenizer;
+        std::istringstream istr(code);
+        tokenizer.tokenize(istr, "test.cpp");
+
+        // there is no allocation
+        const Token *tok = Token::findmatch(tokenizer.tokens(), "ret =");
+        CheckMemoryLeak check(&tokenizer, 0);
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(CheckMemoryLeak::No, check.getAllocationType(tok->tokAt(2), 1));
+    }
 };
 
 static TestMemleak testMemleak;