Index: llvm/lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp
===================================================================
--- llvm/lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp
+++ llvm/lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp
@@ -3451,10 +3451,14 @@
     // up to one.
     if (Alignment == 0)
       Alignment = 1;
-    if (!isPowerOf2_64(Alignment))
+    if (!isPowerOf2_64(Alignment)) {
       ReturnVal |= Error(AlignmentLoc, "alignment must be a power of 2");
-    if (!isUInt<32>(Alignment))
+      Alignment = PowerOf2Floor(Alignment);
+    }
+    if (!isUInt<32>(Alignment)) {
       ReturnVal |= Error(AlignmentLoc, "alignment must be smaller than 2**32");
+      Alignment = 1u << 31;
+    }
   }
 
   // Diagnose non-sensical max bytes to align.
Index: llvm/test/Assembler/invalid-module-asm.ll
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ llvm/test/Assembler/invalid-module-asm.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+; RUN: not llc < %s -o /dev/null 2>%t.err
+; RUN: FileCheck %s < %t.err
+
+; CHECK: alignment must be a power of 2
+module asm "\09.align\093"
+