diff --git a/src/detect-parse.c b/src/detect-parse.c
index ac58e575ea..4cb3510ebc 100644
--- a/src/detect-parse.c
+++ b/src/detect-parse.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ typedef struct SigDuplWrapper_ {
 #define CONFIG_OPTS   7
 
 //                    action       protocol       src                                      sp                        dir              dst                                    dp                            options
-#define CONFIG_PCRE "^([A-z]+)\\s+([A-z0-9]+)\\s+([\\[\\]A-z0-9\\.\\:_\\$\\!\\-,\\/]+)\\s+([\\:A-z0-9_\\$\\!,]+)\\s+(-\\>|\\<\\>)\\s+([\\[\\]A-z0-9\\.\\:_\\$\\!\\-,/]+)\\s+([\\:A-z0-9_\\$\\!,]+)(?:\\s+\\((.*)?(?:\\s*)\\))?(?:(?:\\s*)\\n)?$"
+#define CONFIG_PCRE "^([A-z]+)\\s+([A-z0-9]+)\\s+([\\[\\]A-z0-9\\.\\:_\\$\\!\\-,\\/]+)\\s+([\\:A-z0-9_\\$\\!,]+)\\s+(-\\>|\\<\\>)\\s+([\\[\\]A-z0-9\\.\\:_\\$\\!\\-,/]+)\\s+([\\:A-z0-9_\\$\\!,]+)(?:\\s+\\((.*)?(?:\\s*)\\))?(?:(?:\\s*)\\n)?\\s*$"
 #define OPTION_PARTS 3
 #define OPTION_PCRE "^\\s*([A-z_0-9-\\.]+)(?:\\s*\\:\\s*(.*)(?<!\\\\))?\\s*;\\s*(?:\\s*(.*))?\\s*$"
 
@@ -2111,6 +2111,38 @@ end:
     return result;
 }
 
+/**
+ * \test Parsing sig with trailing space(s) as reported by
+ *       Morgan Cox on oisf-users.
+ */
+int SigParseTest11(void) {
+    int result = 0;
+
+    DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx = DetectEngineCtxInit();
+    if (de_ctx == NULL)
+        goto end;
+
+    Signature *s = NULL;
+
+    s = DetectEngineAppendSig(de_ctx, "drop tcp any any -> any 80 (msg:\"Snort_Inline is blocking the http link\";) ");
+    if (s == NULL) {
+        printf("sig 1 didn't parse: ");
+        goto end;
+    }
+
+    s = DetectEngineAppendSig(de_ctx, "drop tcp any any -> any 80 (msg:\"Snort_Inline is blocking the http link\"; sid:1;)            ");
+    if (s == NULL) {
+        printf("sig 2 didn't parse: ");
+        goto end;
+    }
+
+    result = 1;
+end:
+    if (de_ctx != NULL)
+        DetectEngineCtxFree(de_ctx);
+    return result;
+}
+
 /** \test Direction operator validation (invalid) */
 int SigParseBidirecTest06 (void) {
     int result = 1;
@@ -2977,6 +3009,7 @@ void SigParseRegisterTests(void) {
     UtRegisterTest("SigParseTest08", SigParseTest08, 1);
     UtRegisterTest("SigParseTest09", SigParseTest09, 1);
     UtRegisterTest("SigParseTest10", SigParseTest10, 1);
+    UtRegisterTest("SigParseTest11", SigParseTest11, 1);
 
     UtRegisterTest("SigParseBidirecTest06", SigParseBidirecTest06, 1);
     UtRegisterTest("SigParseBidirecTest07", SigParseBidirecTest07, 1);