diff --git a/lib/checkother.cpp b/lib/checkother.cpp
index 8a9f0edf730..c43ac014116 100644
--- a/lib/checkother.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkother.cpp
@@ -2495,7 +2495,7 @@ void CheckOther::nullPointerByDeRefAndChec()
 
             // Check that variable is a pointer..
             const Token *decltok = Token::findmatch(_tokenizer->tokens(), "%varid%", varid);
-            if (!Token::Match(decltok->tokAt(-3), "[;,(] %type% *"))
+            if (!Token::Match(decltok->tokAt(-3), "[{};,(] %type% *"))
                 continue;
 
             for (const Token *tok1 = tok->previous(); tok1 && tok1 != decltok; tok1 = tok1->previous())
@@ -2516,7 +2516,7 @@ void CheckOther::nullPointerByDeRefAndChec()
                         break;
                     }
                     // dereference in function call
-                    else if (Token::Match(tok1->tokAt(-2), "[(,] *"))
+                    else if (Token::Match(tok1->tokAt(-3), "!!sizeof [(,] *"))
                     {
                         nullPointerError(tok1, varname, tok->linenr());
                     }
diff --git a/test/testother.cpp b/test/testother.cpp
index 192c5de44e4..cb89c5ff5c0 100644
--- a/test/testother.cpp
+++ b/test/testother.cpp
@@ -695,6 +695,17 @@ class TestOther : public TestFixture
                          "    if (a) { }\n"
                          "}\n");
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+
+        // ticket #2134 - sizeof doesn't dereference
+        checkNullPointer("void f() {\n"
+                         "    int c = 1;\n"
+                         "    int *list = NULL;\n"
+                         "    sizeof(*list);\n"
+                         "    if (!list)\n"
+                         "        ;\n"
+                         "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+
     }
 
     void nullpointer2()