diff --git a/src/librustdoc/passes/collect_intra_doc_links.rs b/src/librustdoc/passes/collect_intra_doc_links.rs
index 3cbbb58353b..fa0cbea1d80 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/passes/collect_intra_doc_links.rs
+++ b/src/librustdoc/passes/collect_intra_doc_links.rs
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> LinkCollector<'a, 'tcx> {
     }
 
     /// Resolves a string as a macro.
-    fn macro_resolve(&self, path_str: &str, parent_id: Option<hir::HirId>) -> Option<Res> {
+    fn macro_resolve(&self, path_str: &str, parent_id: Option<DefId>) -> Option<Res> {
         let cx = self.cx;
         let path = ast::Path::from_ident(Ident::from_str(path_str));
         cx.enter_resolver(|resolver| {
@@ -142,8 +142,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> LinkCollector<'a, 'tcx> {
             if let Some(res) = resolver.all_macros().get(&Symbol::intern(path_str)) {
                 return Some(res.map_id(|_| panic!("unexpected id")));
             }
-            if let Some(module_id) = parent_id.or(self.mod_ids.last().cloned()) {
-                let module_id = cx.tcx.hir().local_def_id(module_id);
+            if let Some(module_id) = parent_id {
                 if let Ok((_, res)) =
                     resolver.resolve_str_path_error(DUMMY_SP, path_str, MacroNS, module_id)
                 {
@@ -167,17 +166,13 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> LinkCollector<'a, 'tcx> {
         disambiguator: Option<&str>,
         ns: Namespace,
         current_item: &Option<String>,
-        mut parent_id: Option<DefId>,
+        parent_id: Option<DefId>,
         extra_fragment: &Option<String>,
         item_opt: Option<&Item>,
     ) -> Result<(Res, Option<String>), ErrorKind> {
         let cx = self.cx;
 
         // In case we're in a module, try to resolve the relative path.
-        if parent_id.is_none() {
-            let id = self.mod_ids.last().cloned();
-            parent_id = id.map(|id| cx.tcx.hir().local_def_id(id).to_def_id());
-        }
         if let Some(module_id) = parent_id {
             let result = cx.enter_resolver(|resolver| {
                 resolver.resolve_str_path_error(DUMMY_SP, &path_str, ns, module_id)
@@ -659,8 +654,11 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> DocFolder for LinkCollector<'a, 'tcx> {
                 // we've already pushed this node onto the resolution stack but
                 // for outer comments we explicitly try and resolve against the
                 // parent_node first.
-                let base_node =
-                    if item.is_mod() && item.attrs.inner_docs { None } else { parent_node };
+                let base_node = if item.is_mod() && item.attrs.inner_docs {
+                    self.mod_ids.last().map(|&id| self.cx.tcx.hir().local_def_id(id).to_def_id())
+                } else {
+                    parent_node
+                };
 
                 // replace `Self` with suitable item's parent name
                 if path_str.starts_with("Self::") {
diff --git a/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/auxiliary/macro_inner.rs b/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/auxiliary/macro_inner.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e54539f0bc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/auxiliary/macro_inner.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#![crate_name = "macro_inner"]
+#![deny(intra_doc_resolution_failure)]
+
+pub struct Foo;
+
+/// See also [`Foo`]
+#[macro_export]
+macro_rules! my_macro {
+    () => {}
+}
diff --git a/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/auxiliary/proc_macro.rs b/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/auxiliary/proc_macro.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0d5a954075d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/auxiliary/proc_macro.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// force-host
+// no-prefer-dynamic
+// compile-flags: --crate-type proc-macro
+#![crate_type="proc-macro"]
+#![crate_name="proc_macro_inner"]
+
+extern crate proc_macro;
+
+use proc_macro::TokenStream;
+
+/// Links to [`OtherDerive`]
+#[proc_macro_derive(DeriveA)]
+pub fn a_derive(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
+    input
+}
+
+#[proc_macro_derive(OtherDerive)]
+pub fn other_derive(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
+    input
+}
diff --git a/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/macro.rs b/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/macro.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5c8cec128df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/rustdoc/intra-doc-crate/macro.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// ignore-tidy-linelength
+// aux-build:macro_inner.rs
+// aux-build:proc_macro.rs
+// build-aux-docs
+#![deny(intra_doc_resolution_failure)]
+extern crate macro_inner;
+extern crate proc_macro_inner;
+
+// @has 'macro/macro.my_macro.html' '//a[@href="../macro_inner/struct.Foo.html"]' 'Foo'
+pub use macro_inner::my_macro;
+// @has 'macro/derive.DeriveA.html' '//a[@href="../proc_macro_inner/derive.OtherDerive.html"]' 'OtherDerive'
+pub use proc_macro_inner::DeriveA;