diff --git a/infer/src/concurrency/RacerD.ml b/infer/src/concurrency/RacerD.ml
index b815aef21..95191ca42 100644
--- a/infer/src/concurrency/RacerD.ml
+++ b/infer/src/concurrency/RacerD.ml
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ let analyze_procedure {Callbacks.proc_desc; get_proc_desc; tenv; summary} =
          variables cannot be raced on as every thread has its own stack. *)
       let own_locals_in_cpp =
         match Procdesc.get_proc_name proc_desc with
-        | ObjC_Cpp _ ->
+        | ObjC_Cpp _ | C _ ->
             List.fold ~f:add_owned_local (Procdesc.get_locals proc_desc)
               ~init:OwnershipDomain.empty
         | _ ->
@@ -1917,4 +1917,3 @@ let file_analysis {Callbacks.procedures} =
            else (module MayAliasQuotientedAccessListMap) )
            class_env))
     (aggregate_by_class procedures)
-
diff --git a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/racerd/locals_char_array.cpp b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/racerd/locals_char_array.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1e67a4078
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/racerd/locals_char_array.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017 - present Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+
+#include <mutex>
+
+namespace locals_char_array {
+
+void f() {
+  char line[1024];
+  line[0] = line[1];
+}
+
+struct A {
+  void not_locked() { f(); }
+
+  bool locked() {
+    mutex_.lock();
+    f();
+  }
+  std::mutex mutex_;
+};
+
+} // namespace locals_char_array