diff --git a/src/blas.jl b/src/blas.jl
index a8ce39ef..d5d90a5c 100644
--- a/src/blas.jl
+++ b/src/blas.jl
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ export
     trsm!,
     trsm
 
-using ..LinearAlgebra: libblastrampoline, BlasReal, BlasComplex, BlasFloat, BlasInt,
-    DimensionMismatch, checksquare, chkstride1, SingularException
+using ..LinearAlgebra: libblastrampoline, BlasReal, BlasComplex, BlasFloat, BlasInt, DimensionMismatch, checksquare, chkstride1
 
 include("lbt.jl")
 
@@ -1378,11 +1377,6 @@ for (fname, elty) in ((:dtrsv_,:Float64),
                 throw(DimensionMismatch(lazy"size of A is $n != length(x) = $(length(x))"))
             end
             chkstride1(A)
-            if diag == 'N'
-                for i in 1:n
-                    iszero(A[i,i]) && throw(SingularException(i))
-                end
-            end
             px, stx = vec_pointer_stride(x, ArgumentError("input vector with 0 stride is not allowed"))
             GC.@preserve x ccall((@blasfunc($fname), libblastrampoline), Cvoid,
                 (Ref{UInt8}, Ref{UInt8}, Ref{UInt8}, Ref{BlasInt},
@@ -2231,11 +2225,6 @@ for (mmname, smname, elty) in
             end
             chkstride1(A)
             chkstride1(B)
-            if diag == 'N'
-                for i in 1:k
-                    iszero(A[i,i]) && throw(SingularException(i))
-                end
-            end
             ccall((@blasfunc($smname), libblastrampoline), Cvoid,
                    (Ref{UInt8}, Ref{UInt8}, Ref{UInt8}, Ref{UInt8},
                     Ref{BlasInt}, Ref{BlasInt}, Ref{$elty}, Ptr{$elty},
diff --git a/src/triangular.jl b/src/triangular.jl
index 65070aa7..199ff119 100644
--- a/src/triangular.jl
+++ b/src/triangular.jl
@@ -1223,13 +1223,11 @@ function generic_mattrimul!(C::StridedMatrix{T}, uploc, isunitc, tfun::Function,
     end
 end
 # division
-generic_trimatdiv!(C::StridedVector{T}, uploc, isunitc, tfun::Function, A::StridedMatrix{T}, B::AbstractVector{T}) where {T<:BlasFloat} =
-    BLAS.trsv!(uploc, tfun === identity ? 'N' : tfun === transpose ? 'T' : 'C', isunitc, A, C === B ? C : copyto!(C, B))
-function generic_trimatdiv!(C::StridedMatrix{T}, uploc, isunitc, tfun::Function, A::StridedMatrix{T}, B::AbstractMatrix{T}) where {T<:BlasFloat}
+function generic_trimatdiv!(C::StridedVecOrMat{T}, uploc, isunitc, tfun::Function, A::StridedMatrix{T}, B::AbstractVecOrMat{T}) where {T<:BlasFloat}
     if stride(C,1) == stride(A,1) == 1
-        BLAS.trsm!('L', uploc, tfun === identity ? 'N' : tfun === transpose ? 'T' : 'C', isunitc, one(T), A, C === B ? C : copyto!(C, B))
+        LAPACK.trtrs!(uploc, tfun === identity ? 'N' : tfun === transpose ? 'T' : 'C', isunitc, A, C === B ? C : copyto!(C, B))
     else # incompatible with LAPACK
-        @invoke generic_trimatdiv!(C::AbstractVecOrMat, uploc, isunitc, tfun::Function, A::AbstractMatrix, B::AbstractMatrix)
+        @invoke generic_trimatdiv!(C::AbstractVecOrMat, uploc, isunitc, tfun::Function, A::AbstractMatrix, B::AbstractVecOrMat)
     end
 end
 function generic_mattridiv!(C::StridedMatrix{T}, uploc, isunitc, tfun::Function, A::AbstractMatrix{T}, B::StridedMatrix{T}) where {T<:BlasFloat}
diff --git a/test/testtriag.jl b/test/testtriag.jl
index 6ed7a0d6..7542d843 100644
--- a/test/testtriag.jl
+++ b/test/testtriag.jl
@@ -493,8 +493,6 @@ function test_triangular(elty1_types)
                 @test_throws DimensionMismatch transpose(Ann) \ bm
                 if t1 == UpperTriangular || t1 == LowerTriangular
                     @test_throws SingularException ldiv!(t1(zeros(elty1, n, n)), fill(eltyB(1), n))
-                    @test_throws SingularException ldiv!(t1(zeros(elty1, n, n)), fill(eltyB(1), n, 2))
-                    @test_throws SingularException rdiv!(fill(eltyB(1), n, n), t1(zeros(elty1, n, n)))
                 end
                 @test B / A1 ≈ B / M1
                 @test B / transpose(A1) ≈ B / transpose(M1)
diff --git a/test/triangular.jl b/test/triangular.jl
index eb6814b9..739c3ff3 100644
--- a/test/triangular.jl
+++ b/test/triangular.jl
@@ -891,13 +891,8 @@ end
     end
 end
 
-@testset "(l/r)mul! and (l/r)div! for non-contiguous arrays" begin
+@testset "(l/r)mul! and (l/r)div! for non-contiguous matrices" begin
     U = UpperTriangular(reshape(collect(3:27.0),5,5))
-    b = float.(1:10)
-    b2 = copy(b); b2v = view(b2, 1:2:9); b2vc = copy(b2v)
-    @test lmul!(U, b2v) == lmul!(U, b2vc)
-    b2 = copy(b); b2v = view(b2, 1:2:9); b2vc = copy(b2v)
-    @test ldiv!(U, b2v) ≈ ldiv!(U, b2vc)
     B = float.(collect(reshape(1:100, 10,10)))
     B2 = copy(B); B2v = view(B2, 1:2:9, 1:5); B2vc = copy(B2v)
     @test lmul!(U, B2v) == lmul!(U, B2vc)