diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 6c803e3198..6ba8f67054 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -671,12 +671,17 @@ static void trace2_bloom_filter_statistics_atexit(void)
 
 static int forbid_bloom_filters(struct pathspec *spec)
 {
-	if (spec->has_wildcard)
-		return 1;
-	if (spec->magic & ~PATHSPEC_LITERAL)
+	unsigned int allowed_magic =
+		PATHSPEC_FROMTOP |
+		PATHSPEC_MAXDEPTH |
+		PATHSPEC_LITERAL |
+		PATHSPEC_GLOB |
+		PATHSPEC_ATTR;
+
+	if (spec->magic & ~allowed_magic)
 		return 1;
 	for (size_t nr = 0; nr < spec->nr; nr++)
-		if (spec->items[nr].magic & ~PATHSPEC_LITERAL)
+		if (spec->items[nr].magic & ~allowed_magic)
 			return 1;
 
 	return 0;
@@ -691,23 +696,34 @@ static int convert_pathspec_to_bloom_keyvec(struct bloom_keyvec **out,
 	char *path_alloc = NULL;
 	const char *path;
 	size_t len;
-	int res = 0;
+	int res = -1;
 
+	len = pi->nowildcard_len;
+	if (len != pi->len) {
+		/*
+		 * for path like "dir/file*", nowildcard part would be
+		 * "dir/file", but only "dir" should be used for the
+		 * bloom filter.
+		 */
+		while (len > 0 && pi->match[len - 1] != '/')
+			len--;
+	}
 	/* remove single trailing slash from path, if needed */
-	if (pi->len > 0 && pi->match[pi->len - 1] == '/') {
-		path_alloc = xmemdupz(pi->match, pi->len - 1);
+	if (len > 0 && pi->match[len - 1] == '/')
+		len--;
+
+	if (!len)
+		goto cleanup;
+
+	if (len != pi->len) {
+		path_alloc = xmemdupz(pi->match, len);
 		path = path_alloc;
 	} else
 		path = pi->match;
 
-	len = strlen(path);
-	if (!len) {
-		res = -1;
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
-
 	*out = bloom_keyvec_new(path, len, settings);
 
+	res = 0;
 cleanup:
 	free(path_alloc);
 	return res;
diff --git a/t/t4216-log-bloom.sh b/t/t4216-log-bloom.sh
index 639868ac56..1064990de3 100755
--- a/t/t4216-log-bloom.sh
+++ b/t/t4216-log-bloom.sh
@@ -154,11 +154,34 @@ test_expect_success 'git log with multiple literal paths uses Bloom filter' '
 	test_bloom_filters_used "-- file*"
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'git log with path contains a wildcard does not use Bloom filter' '
+test_expect_success 'git log with paths all contain non-wildcard part uses Bloom filter' '
+	test_bloom_filters_used "-- A/\* file4" &&
+	test_bloom_filters_used "-- A/file\*" &&
+	test_bloom_filters_used "-- * A/\*"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'git log with path only contains wildcard part does not use Bloom filter' '
 	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- file\*" &&
-	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- A/\* file4" &&
-	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- file4 A/\*" &&
-	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- * A/\*"
+	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- file\* A/\*" &&
+	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- file\* *" &&
+	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- \*"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'git log with path contains various magic signatures' '
+	cd A &&
+	test_bloom_filters_used "-- \:\(top\)B" &&
+	cd .. &&
+
+	test_bloom_filters_used "-- \:\(glob\)A/\*\*/C" &&
+	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- \:\(icase\)FILE4" &&
+	test_bloom_filters_not_used "-- \:\(exclude\)A/B/C" &&
+
+	test_when_finished "rm -f .gitattributes" &&
+	cat >.gitattributes <<-EOF &&
+	A/file1 text
+	A/B/file2 -text
+	EOF
+	test_bloom_filters_used "-- \:\(attr\:text\)A"
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'setup - add commit-graph to the chain without Bloom filters' '