diff --git a/clang/lib/Sema/SemaSYCL.cpp b/clang/lib/Sema/SemaSYCL.cpp
index fac53fcfbf94a..01e741fbfc713 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Sema/SemaSYCL.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Sema/SemaSYCL.cpp
@@ -2158,15 +2158,18 @@ class SyclKernelDeclCreator : public SyclKernelFieldHandler {
 
   bool handlePointerType(FieldDecl *FD, QualType FieldTy) final {
     // USM allows to use raw pointers instead of buffers/accessors, but these
-    // pointers point to the specially allocated memory. For pointer fields we
-    // add a kernel argument with the same type as field but global address
-    // space, because OpenCL requires it.
+    // pointers point to the specially allocated memory. For pointer fields,
+    // except for function pointer fields, we add a kernel argument with the
+    // same type as field but global address space, because OpenCL requires it.
+    // Function pointers should have program address space. This is set in
+    // CodeGen.
     QualType PointeeTy = FieldTy->getPointeeType();
     Qualifiers Quals = PointeeTy.getQualifiers();
     auto AS = Quals.getAddressSpace();
     // Leave global_device and global_host address spaces as is to help FPGA
     // device in memory allocations
-    if (AS != LangAS::sycl_global_device && AS != LangAS::sycl_global_host)
+    if (!PointeeTy->isFunctionType() && AS != LangAS::sycl_global_device &&
+        AS != LangAS::sycl_global_host)
       Quals.setAddressSpace(LangAS::sycl_global);
     PointeeTy = SemaRef.getASTContext().getQualifiedType(
         PointeeTy.getUnqualifiedType(), Quals);
diff --git a/clang/test/CodeGenSYCL/functionptr-addrspace.cpp b/clang/test/CodeGenSYCL/functionptr-addrspace.cpp
index 9801af10041f6..fd5b4e3963fdb 100644
--- a/clang/test/CodeGenSYCL/functionptr-addrspace.cpp
+++ b/clang/test/CodeGenSYCL/functionptr-addrspace.cpp
@@ -21,5 +21,16 @@ int main() {
     invoke_function(r, &a);
     invoke_function(f, &a);
   });
+
+  // Test function pointer as kernel argument. Function pointers should have program address space i.e. 0.
+
+  int (*fptr)();
+  int *ptr;
+
+  // define dso_local spir_kernel void @{{.*}}fake_kernel_2{{.*}}(i32 ()* align 4 %_arg_fptr, i32 addrspace(1)* align 4 %_arg_ptr)
+  kernel_single_task<class fake_kernel_2>([=]() {
+    invoke_function(fptr, ptr);
+  });
+
   return 0;
 }