diff --git a/clang/include/clang/Frontend/FrontendAction.h b/clang/include/clang/Frontend/FrontendAction.h
index 6839028f9784..c0056de5cae3 100644
--- a/clang/include/clang/Frontend/FrontendAction.h
+++ b/clang/include/clang/Frontend/FrontendAction.h
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ public:
   bool BeginSourceFile(CompilerInstance &CI, const FrontendInputFile &Input);
 
   /// Execute - Set the source managers main input file, and run the action.
-  void Execute();
+  bool Execute();
 
   /// EndSourceFile - Perform any per-file post processing, deallocate per-file
   /// objects, and run statistics and output file cleanup code.
diff --git a/clang/lib/Frontend/ASTUnit.cpp b/clang/lib/Frontend/ASTUnit.cpp
index d6bdae4aafe1..1ef5ba864eb9 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Frontend/ASTUnit.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Frontend/ASTUnit.cpp
@@ -1133,7 +1133,8 @@ bool ASTUnit::Parse(llvm::MemoryBuffer *OverrideMainBuffer) {
                                StoredDiagnostics);
   }
 
-  Act->Execute();
+  if (!Act->Execute())
+    goto error;
 
   transferASTDataFromCompilerInstance(*Clang);
   
@@ -1795,7 +1796,13 @@ ASTUnit *ASTUnit::LoadFromCompilerInvocationAction(CompilerInvocation *CI,
                                            AST->getCurrentTopLevelHashValue()));
     Clang->setASTConsumer(new MultiplexConsumer(Consumers));
   }
-  Act->Execute();
+  if (!Act->Execute()) {
+    AST->transferASTDataFromCompilerInstance(*Clang);
+    if (OwnAST && ErrAST)
+      ErrAST->swap(OwnAST);
+
+    return 0;
+  }
 
   // Steal the created target, context, and preprocessor.
   AST->transferASTDataFromCompilerInstance(*Clang);
diff --git a/clang/lib/Frontend/FrontendAction.cpp b/clang/lib/Frontend/FrontendAction.cpp
index 1ff32921d9d7..fb53c71fa9b9 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Frontend/FrontendAction.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Frontend/FrontendAction.cpp
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ bool FrontendAction::BeginSourceFile(CompilerInstance &CI,
   return false;
 }
 
-void FrontendAction::Execute() {
+bool FrontendAction::Execute() {
   CompilerInstance &CI = getCompilerInstance();
 
   // Initialize the main file entry. This needs to be delayed until after PCH
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ void FrontendAction::Execute() {
                                     getCurrentInput().IsSystem
                                       ? SrcMgr::C_System
                                       : SrcMgr::C_User))
-      return;
+      return false;
   }
 
   if (CI.hasFrontendTimer()) {
@@ -333,6 +333,8 @@ void FrontendAction::Execute() {
     ExecuteAction();
   }
   else ExecuteAction();
+
+  return true;
 }
 
 void FrontendAction::EndSourceFile() {
diff --git a/clang/test/Index/pch-with-errors.c b/clang/test/Index/pch-with-errors.c
index be8728eb723b..2d396134e5f2 100644
--- a/clang/test/Index/pch-with-errors.c
+++ b/clang/test/Index/pch-with-errors.c
@@ -38,5 +38,7 @@ void foo(void) {
 // CHECK-INDEX: [indexEntityReference]: kind: function | name: erroneous
 
 // RUN: %clang -fsyntax-only %s -include %t.h 2>&1 | FileCheck -check-prefix=PCH-ERR %s
-
 // PCH-ERR: error: PCH file contains compiler errors
+
+// RUN: c-index-test -write-pch %t.pch foobar.c 2>&1 | FileCheck -check-prefix=NONEXISTENT %s
+// NONEXISTENT: Unable to load translation unit
diff --git a/clang/tools/libclang/CIndex.cpp b/clang/tools/libclang/CIndex.cpp
index a508b772e531..8eaf4ecf0c90 100644
--- a/clang/tools/libclang/CIndex.cpp
+++ b/clang/tools/libclang/CIndex.cpp
@@ -2692,6 +2692,8 @@ int clang_saveTranslationUnit(CXTranslationUnit TU, const char *FileName,
 
   ASTUnit *CXXUnit = static_cast<ASTUnit *>(TU->TUData);
   ASTUnit::ConcurrencyCheck Check(*CXXUnit);
+  if (!CXXUnit->hasSema())
+    return CXSaveError_InvalidTU;
 
   SaveTranslationUnitInfo STUI = { TU, FileName, options, CXSaveError_None };