diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-cov/misssing-profdata.test b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-cov/misssing-profdata.test
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..44faeac74071
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-cov/misssing-profdata.test
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+RUN: not llvm-cov show -instr-profile=%t.nonexistent %t.nonexistent 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
+CHECK: Could not read profile data
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-cov/CodeCoverage.cpp b/llvm/tools/llvm-cov/CodeCoverage.cpp
index 625e2342e4bb..b2024e9ee331 100644
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-cov/CodeCoverage.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-cov/CodeCoverage.cpp
@@ -867,8 +867,8 @@ int CodeCoverageTool::doShow(int argc, const char **argv,
   }
 
   sys::fs::file_status Status;
-  if (sys::fs::status(PGOFilename, Status)) {
-    error("profdata file error: can not get the file status. \n");
+  if (std::error_code EC = sys::fs::status(PGOFilename, Status)) {
+    error("Could not read profile data!", EC.message());
     return 1;
   }