diff --git a/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp b/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
index 310392c3c18a..e81c6854bdea 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
@@ -1307,7 +1307,8 @@ Expr ScriptParser::readPrimary() {
     next();
     expect(",");
     uint64_t Val;
-    next().getAsInteger(0, Val);
+    if (next().getAsInteger(0, Val))
+      setError("integer expected");
     expect(")");
     return [=](uint64_t Dot) { return Val; };
   }
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/linkerscript/segment-start.s b/lld/test/ELF/linkerscript/segment-start.s
index 2f3245fc21a8..fb00ef13a2ce 100644
--- a/lld/test/ELF/linkerscript/segment-start.s
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/linkerscript/segment-start.s
@@ -20,3 +20,8 @@
 .quad foobar2
 .quad foobar3
 .quad foobar4
+
+// RUN: echo "SECTIONS { . = SEGMENT_START(\"foobar\", foo); }" > %t.script
+// RUN: not ld.lld %t.o %t.script -shared -o %t2.so 2>&1 \
+// RUN: | FileCheck --check-prefix=ERR %s
+// ERR: integer expected