diff --git a/lib/checkleakautovar.cpp b/lib/checkleakautovar.cpp
index 17bd116ed98..0814aaeee3c 100644
--- a/lib/checkleakautovar.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkleakautovar.cpp
@@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ const Token * CheckLeakAutoVar::checkTokenInsideExpression(const Token * const t
         const std::map<int, VarInfo::AllocInfo>::const_iterator var = varInfo.alloctype.find(tok->varId());
         if (var != varInfo.alloctype.end()) {
             bool unknown = false;
-            if (var->second.status == VarInfo::DEALLOC && CheckNullPointer::isPointerDeRef(tok, unknown, *mSettings, /*checkNullArg*/ false) && !unknown) {
+            if (var->second.status == VarInfo::DEALLOC && !Library::isresource(var->second.type) &&
+                CheckNullPointer::isPointerDeRef(tok, unknown, *mSettings, /*checkNullArg*/ false) && !unknown) {
                 deallocUseError(tok, tok->str());
             } else if (Token::simpleMatch(tok->tokAt(-2), "= &")) {
                 varInfo.erase(tok->varId());
@@ -930,8 +931,10 @@ void CheckLeakAutoVar::changeAllocStatus(VarInfo &varInfo, const VarInfo::AllocI
             var->second.allocTok = allocation.allocTok;
         }
     } else if (allocation.status != VarInfo::NOALLOC && allocation.status != VarInfo::OWNED && !Token::simpleMatch(tok->astTop(), "return")) {
-        alloctype[arg->varId()].status = VarInfo::DEALLOC;
-        alloctype[arg->varId()].allocTok = tok;
+        auto& allocInfo = alloctype[arg->varId()];
+        allocInfo.status = VarInfo::DEALLOC;
+        allocInfo.allocTok = tok;
+        allocInfo.type = allocation.type;
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/test/testleakautovar.cpp b/test/testleakautovar.cpp
index 41fd7af24ea..39891e8eb71 100644
--- a/test/testleakautovar.cpp
+++ b/test/testleakautovar.cpp
@@ -3334,6 +3334,7 @@ class TestLeakAutoVarPosix : public TestFixture {
 
     void run() override {
         TEST_CASE(memleak_getline);
+        TEST_CASE(deallocuse_fdopen);
     }
 
     void memleak_getline() {
@@ -3344,6 +3345,21 @@ class TestLeakAutoVarPosix : public TestFixture {
               "}\n");
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout_str());
     }
+
+    void deallocuse_fdopen() {
+        check("struct FileCloser {\n" // #13126
+              "    void operator()(std::FILE * ptr) const {\n"
+              "        std::fclose(ptr);\n"
+              "    }\n"
+              "};\n"
+              "void f(char* fileName) {\n"
+              "    std::unique_ptr<std::FILE, FileCloser> out;\n"
+              "    int fd = mkstemps(fileName, 4);\n"
+              "    if (fd != -1)\n"
+              "        out.reset(fdopen(fd, \"w\"));\n"
+              "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout_str());
+    }
 };
 
 REGISTER_TEST(TestLeakAutoVarPosix)