diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/MisplacedOperatorInStrlenInAllocCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/MisplacedOperatorInStrlenInAllocCheck.cpp
index 031663b224cd..f8db0b3ef945 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/MisplacedOperatorInStrlenInAllocCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/MisplacedOperatorInStrlenInAllocCheck.cpp
@@ -49,10 +49,23 @@ void MisplacedOperatorInStrlenInAllocCheck::registerMatchers(
       functionDecl(anyOf(hasName("::calloc"), hasName("std::calloc"),
                          hasName("::realloc"), hasName("std::realloc")));
 
-  Finder->addMatcher(
-      callExpr(callee(Alloc0Func), hasArgument(0, BadArg)).bind("Alloc"), this);
-  Finder->addMatcher(
-      callExpr(callee(Alloc1Func), hasArgument(1, BadArg)).bind("Alloc"), this);
+  const auto Alloc0FuncPtr =
+      varDecl(hasType(isConstQualified()),
+              hasInitializer(ignoringParenImpCasts(
+                  declRefExpr(hasDeclaration(Alloc0Func)))));
+  const auto Alloc1FuncPtr =
+      varDecl(hasType(isConstQualified()),
+              hasInitializer(ignoringParenImpCasts(
+                  declRefExpr(hasDeclaration(Alloc1Func)))));
+
+  Finder->addMatcher(callExpr(callee(decl(anyOf(Alloc0Func, Alloc0FuncPtr))),
+                              hasArgument(0, BadArg))
+                         .bind("Alloc"),
+                     this);
+  Finder->addMatcher(callExpr(callee(decl(anyOf(Alloc1Func, Alloc1FuncPtr))),
+                              hasArgument(1, BadArg))
+                         .bind("Alloc"),
+                     this);
   Finder->addMatcher(
       cxxNewExpr(isArray(), hasArraySize(BadArg)).bind("Alloc"), this);
 }
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc.rst
index 463e3b88d482..e6ff2fe10c1c 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc.rst
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc.rst
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ Finds cases where ``1`` is added to the string in the argument to ``strlen()``,
 ``strnlen()``, ``strnlen_s()``, ``wcslen()``, ``wcsnlen()``, and ``wcsnlen_s()``
 instead of the result and the value is used as an argument to a memory
 allocation function (``malloc()``, ``calloc()``, ``realloc()``, ``alloca()``) or
-the ``new[]`` operator in `C++`. Cases where ``1`` is added both to the
-parameter and the result of the ``strlen()``-like function are ignored, as are
-cases where the whole addition is surrounded by extra parentheses.
+the ``new[]`` operator in `C++`. The check detects error cases even if one of
+these functions (except the ``new[]`` operator) is called by a constant function
+pointer.  Cases where ``1`` is added both to the parameter and the result of the
+``strlen()``-like function are ignored, as are cases where the whole addition is
+surrounded by extra parentheses.
 
 `C` example code:
 
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc.c b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc.c
index b26bf244609a..c5deb25e9ac0 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc.c
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc.c
@@ -75,3 +75,11 @@ void intentional3(char *name) {
   // CHECK-MESSAGES-NOT: :[[@LINE-1]]:28: warning: addition operator is applied to the argument of strlen
   // If expression is in extra parentheses, consider it as intentional
 }
+
+void (*(*const alloc_ptr)(size_t)) = malloc;
+
+void bad_indirect_alloc(char *name) {
+  char *new_name = (char *)alloc_ptr(strlen(name + 1));
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:28: warning: addition operator is applied to the argument of strlen
+  // CHECK-FIXES: {{^  char \*new_name = \(char \*\)alloc_ptr\(}}strlen(name) + 1{{\);$}}
+}