diff --git a/docs/api_extra.rst b/docs/api_extra.rst
index f310497a8..977dde684 100644
--- a/docs/api_extra.rst
+++ b/docs/api_extra.rst
@@ -634,13 +634,13 @@ section <ndarrays>`.
    .. cpp:function:: size_t itemsize() const
 
       Return the size of a single array element in bytes. The returned value
-      is rounded to the next full byte in case of bit-level representations
+      is rounded up to the next full byte in case of bit-level representations
       (query :cpp:member:`dtype::bits` for bit-level granularity).
 
    .. cpp:function:: size_t nbytes() const
 
       Return the size of the entire array bytes. The returned value is rounded
-      to the next full byte in case of bit-level representations.
+      up to the next full byte in case of bit-level representations.
 
    .. cpp:function:: size_t shape(size_t i) const
 
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ section <ndarrays>`.
 
    .. cpp:function:: int64_t stride(size_t i) const
 
-      Return the stride of dimension `i`.
+      Return the stride (in number of elements) of dimension `i`.
 
    .. cpp:function:: const int64_t* shape_ptr() const
 
diff --git a/src/nb_ndarray.cpp b/src/nb_ndarray.cpp
index 46432833c..aad12aa4e 100644
--- a/src/nb_ndarray.cpp
+++ b/src/nb_ndarray.cpp
@@ -262,8 +262,14 @@ static PyObject *dlpack_from_buffer_protocol(PyObject *o, bool ro) {
 
     scoped_pymalloc<int64_t> strides((size_t) view->ndim);
     scoped_pymalloc<int64_t> shape((size_t) view->ndim);
+    const int64_t itemsize = static_cast<int64_t>(view->itemsize);
     for (size_t i = 0; i < (size_t) view->ndim; ++i) {
-        strides[i] = (int64_t) (view->strides[i] / view->itemsize);
+        int64_t stride = view->strides[i] / itemsize;
+        if (stride * itemsize != view->strides[i]) {
+            PyBuffer_Release(view.get());
+            return nullptr;
+        }
+        strides[i] = stride;
         shape[i] = (int64_t) view->shape[i];
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/test_ndarray.cpp b/tests/test_ndarray.cpp
index fef267771..87ac291db 100644
--- a/tests/test_ndarray.cpp
+++ b/tests/test_ndarray.cpp
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ NB_MODULE(test_ndarray_ext, m) {
         return t.nbytes();
     }, "array"_a.noconvert());
 
+    m.def("get_stride", [](const nb::ndarray<> &t, size_t i) {
+        return t.stride(i);
+    }, "array"_a.noconvert(), "i"_a);
+
     m.def("check_shape_ptr", [](const nb::ndarray<> &t) {
         std::vector<int64_t> shape(t.ndim());
         std::copy(t.shape_ptr(), t.shape_ptr() + t.ndim(), shape.begin());
diff --git a/tests/test_ndarray.py b/tests/test_ndarray.py
index 2bc7fb734..2c9e0cbeb 100644
--- a/tests/test_ndarray.py
+++ b/tests/test_ndarray.py
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ def test28_reference_internal():
     assert msg in str(excinfo.value)
 
 @needs_numpy
-def test29_force_contig_pytorch():
+def test29_force_contig_numpy():
     a = np.array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]])
     b = t.make_contig(a)
     assert b is a
@@ -656,3 +656,28 @@ def __dlpack__(self):
 
     arr = DLPackWrapper(np.zeros((1)))
     assert t.check(arr)
+
+@needs_numpy
+def test37_noninteger_stride():
+    a = np.array([[1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 0], [5, 6, 7, 8, 0, 0]], dtype=np.float32)
+    s = a[:, 0:4]  # slice
+    t.pass_float32(s)
+    assert t.get_stride(s, 0) == 6;
+    assert t.get_stride(s, 1) == 1;
+    v = s.view(np.complex64)
+    t.pass_complex64(v)
+    assert t.get_stride(v, 0) == 3;
+    assert t.get_stride(v, 1) == 1;
+
+    a = np.array([[1, 2, 3, 4, 0], [5, 6, 7, 8, 0]], dtype=np.float32)
+    s = a[:, 0:4]  # slice
+    t.pass_float32(s)
+    assert t.get_stride(s, 0) == 5;
+    assert t.get_stride(s, 1) == 1;
+    v = s.view(np.complex64)
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError) as excinfo:
+        t.pass_complex64(v)
+    assert 'incompatible function arguments' in str(excinfo.value)
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError) as excinfo:
+        t.get_stride(v, 0);
+    assert 'incompatible function arguments' in str(excinfo.value)
diff --git a/tests/test_ndarray_ext.pyi.ref b/tests/test_ndarray_ext.pyi.ref
index 91ee07841..69a604ba7 100644
--- a/tests/test_ndarray_ext.pyi.ref
+++ b/tests/test_ndarray_ext.pyi.ref
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ def get_shape(array: Annotated[ArrayLike, dict(writable=False)]) -> list: ...
 
 def get_size(array: ArrayLike) -> int: ...
 
+def get_stride(array: ArrayLike, i: int) -> int: ...
+
 def implicit(array: Annotated[ArrayLike, dict(dtype='float32', order='C', shape=(2, 2))]) -> int: ...
 
 @overload