diff --git a/candle-core/src/backprop.rs b/candle-core/src/backprop.rs
index 7488d939..155f49c5 100644
--- a/candle-core/src/backprop.rs
+++ b/candle-core/src/backprop.rs
@@ -238,6 +238,13 @@ impl Tensor {
                             .conv2d(&grad.transpose(0, 1)?, *padding, *dilation, *stride, 1)?
                             .transpose(0, 1)?;
                         let sum_grad = grads.or_insert(kernel)?;
+                        let (_, _, k0, k1) = kernel.dims4()?;
+                        let (_, _, g_k0, g_k1) = grad_kernel.dims4()?;
+                        let grad_kernel = if g_k0 != k0 || g_k1 != k1 {
+                            grad_kernel.narrow(2, 0, k0)?.narrow(3, 0, k1)?
+                        } else {
+                            grad_kernel
+                        };
                         *sum_grad = sum_grad.add(&grad_kernel)?;
                     }
                     Op::ConvTranspose2D { .. } => Err(Error::BackwardNotSupported {
diff --git a/candle-core/tests/conv_tests.rs b/candle-core/tests/conv_tests.rs
index 937ddf67..e7fdf138 100644
--- a/candle-core/tests/conv_tests.rs
+++ b/candle-core/tests/conv_tests.rs
@@ -479,6 +479,71 @@ fn conv2d_grad(dev: &Device) -> Result<()> {
             ]
         ]
     );
+
+    // Replicate the issue from https://github.com/huggingface/candle/issues/1212
+    let res = t.i((.., .., 0..4, 0..4))?.conv2d(&w, 0, 2, 1, 1)?;
+    let loss = res.sqr()?.sum_all()?;
+    assert_eq!(test_utils::to_vec0_round(&loss, 2)?, 21.12f32);
+    let grads = loss.backward()?;
+    let grad_t = grads.get(&t).unwrap();
+    let grad_w = grads.get(&w).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(grad_t.dims(), [1, 4, 5, 5]);
+    assert_eq!(grad_w.dims(), [2, 4, 3, 3]);
+    assert_eq!(
+        test_utils::to_vec3_round(&grad_t.i(0)?, 2)?,
+        [
+            [
+                [9.29, -7.03, 7.87, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [-1.8, -7.82, 5.9, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [-3.12, 4.49, 5.52, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+            ],
+            [
+                [21.73, 3.39, 4.77, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [8.25, 3.73, 27.61, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [-20.55, -5.61, -2.77, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+            ],
+            [
+                [-8.98, 9.91, -7.15, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [4.93, -0.33, 4.56, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [-6.7, -5.76, -8.05, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+            ],
+            [
+                [23.54, 6.98, -10.0, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [9.65, 6.18, 18.72, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [3.29, -5.27, 0.79, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
+                [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+            ]
+        ]
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        test_utils::to_vec3_round(&grad_w.i(0)?, 2)?,
+        [
+            [
+                [-3.47, 7.44, 0.66],
+                [12.89, -3.4, -9.29],
+                [-14.16, -0.83, 7.14]
+            ],
+            [
+                [-3.23, 5.37, -3.02],
+                [-2.12, -11.24, 1.94],
+                [6.97, 7.2, 2.99]
+            ],
+            [
+                [-4.04, -3.31, 4.87],
+                [-6.68, -5.68, 1.73],
+                [-5.54, 4.32, 0.52]
+            ],
+            [[-4.72, 1.5, 4.72], [3.79, 4.04, 6.76], [-4.6, 5.8, 6.93]]
+        ]
+    );
+
     Ok(())
 }