diff --git a/clang/include/clang/Parse/Parser.h b/clang/include/clang/Parse/Parser.h
--- a/clang/include/clang/Parse/Parser.h
+++ b/clang/include/clang/Parse/Parser.h
@@ -2441,6 +2441,10 @@
   TPResult TryParseBracketDeclarator();
   TPResult TryConsumeDeclarationSpecifier();
 
+  /// Try to skip a possibly empty sequence of 'attribute-specifier's without
+  /// full validation of the syntactic structure of attributes.
+  bool TrySkipAttributes();
+
 public:
   TypeResult ParseTypeName(SourceRange *Range = nullptr,
                            DeclaratorContext Context
diff --git a/clang/lib/Parse/ParseTentative.cpp b/clang/lib/Parse/ParseTentative.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/Parse/ParseTentative.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Parse/ParseTentative.cpp
@@ -186,21 +186,8 @@
     ConsumeToken();
 
     // Skip attributes.
-    while (Tok.isOneOf(tok::l_square, tok::kw___attribute, tok::kw___declspec,
-                       tok::kw_alignas)) {
-      if (Tok.is(tok::l_square)) {
-        ConsumeBracket();
-        if (!SkipUntil(tok::r_square))
-          return TPResult::Error;
-      } else {
-        ConsumeToken();
-        if (Tok.isNot(tok::l_paren))
-          return TPResult::Error;
-        ConsumeParen();
-        if (!SkipUntil(tok::r_paren))
-          return TPResult::Error;
-      }
-    }
+    if (!TrySkipAttributes())
+      return TPResult::Error;
 
     if (TryAnnotateOptionalCXXScopeToken())
       return TPResult::Error;
@@ -781,6 +768,32 @@
   return CAK_NotAttributeSpecifier;
 }
 
+bool Parser::TrySkipAttributes() {
+  while (Tok.isOneOf(tok::l_square, tok::kw___attribute, tok::kw___declspec,
+                     tok::kw_alignas)) {
+    if (Tok.is(tok::l_square)) {
+      ConsumeBracket();
+      if (Tok.isNot(tok::l_square))
+        return false;
+      ConsumeBracket();
+      if (!SkipUntil(tok::r_square) || Tok.isNot(tok::r_square))
+        return false;
+      // Note that explicitly checking for `[[` and `]]` allows to fail as
+      // expected in the case of the Objective-C message send syntax.
+      ConsumeBracket();
+    } else {
+      ConsumeToken();
+      if (Tok.isNot(tok::l_paren))
+        return false;
+      ConsumeParen();
+      if (!SkipUntil(tok::r_paren))
+        return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
 Parser::TPResult Parser::TryParsePtrOperatorSeq() {
   while (true) {
     if (TryAnnotateOptionalCXXScopeToken(true))
@@ -790,6 +803,11 @@
         (Tok.is(tok::annot_cxxscope) && NextToken().is(tok::star))) {
       // ptr-operator
       ConsumeAnyToken();
+
+      // Skip attributes.
+      if (!TrySkipAttributes())
+        return TPResult::Error;
+
       while (Tok.isOneOf(tok::kw_const, tok::kw_volatile, tok::kw_restrict,
                          tok::kw__Nonnull, tok::kw__Nullable,
                          tok::kw__Null_unspecified))
diff --git a/clang/test/CXX/dcl.decl/p4-0x.cpp b/clang/test/CXX/dcl.decl/p4-0x.cpp
--- a/clang/test/CXX/dcl.decl/p4-0x.cpp
+++ b/clang/test/CXX/dcl.decl/p4-0x.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 // RUN: %clang_cc1 -std=c++11 -fsyntax-only -verify %s
-// expected-no-diagnostics
 
 struct X {
   void f() &;
@@ -7,3 +6,11 @@
 };
 
 void (X::*pmf)() & = &X::f;
+
+void fn() {
+  void (*[[attr]] fn_ptr)() = &fn; // expected-warning{{unknown attribute 'attr' ignored}}
+  void (*[[attrA]] *[[attrB]] fn_ptr_ptr)() = &fn_ptr; // expected-warning{{unknown attribute 'attrA' ignored}} expected-warning{{unknown attribute 'attrB' ignored}}
+
+  void (&[[attr]] fn_lref)() = fn; // expected-warning{{unknown attribute 'attr' ignored}}
+  void (&&[[attr]] fn_rref)() = fn; // expected-warning{{unknown attribute 'attr' ignored}}
+}