Index: include/llvm/IR/Verifier.h
===================================================================
--- include/llvm/IR/Verifier.h
+++ include/llvm/IR/Verifier.h
@@ -41,10 +41,16 @@
 
 /// \brief Check a module for errors.
 ///
-/// If there are no errors, the function returns false. If an error is found,
-/// a message describing the error is written to OS (if non-null) and true is
-/// returned.
-bool verifyModule(const Module &M, raw_ostream *OS = nullptr);
+/// If there are no errors, the function returns false. If an error is
+/// found, a message describing the error is written to OS (if
+/// non-null) and true is returned.
+///
+/// \return true if the module is broken. If BrokenDebugInfo is
+/// supplied, DebugInfo verification failures won't be considered as
+/// error and instead *BrokenDebugInfo will be set to true. Debug
+/// info errors can be "recovered" from by stripping the debug info.
+bool verifyModule(const Module &M, raw_ostream *OS = nullptr,
+                  bool *BrokenDebugInfo = nullptr);
 
 /// \brief Create a verifier pass.
 ///
Index: lib/IR/Verifier.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/IR/Verifier.cpp
+++ lib/IR/Verifier.cpp
@@ -4417,18 +4417,22 @@
   return !V.verify(F);
 }
 
-bool llvm::verifyModule(const Module &M, raw_ostream *OS) {
+bool llvm::verifyModule(const Module &M, raw_ostream *OS,
+                        bool *BrokenDebugInfo) {
   // Don't use a raw_null_ostream.  Printing IR is expensive.
-  Verifier V(OS, /*ShouldTreatBrokenDebugInfoAsError=*/true);
+  Verifier V(OS, /*ShouldTreatBrokenDebugInfoAsError=*/!BrokenDebugInfo);
 
   bool Broken = false;
   for (const Function &F : M)
     if (!F.isDeclaration() && !F.isMaterializable())
       Broken |= !V.verify(F);
 
+  Broken |= !V.verify(M);
+  if (BrokenDebugInfo)
+    *BrokenDebugInfo = V.hasBrokenDebugInfo();
   // Note that this function's return value is inverted from what you would
   // expect of a function called "verify".
-  return !V.verify(M) || Broken;
+  return Broken;
 }
 
 namespace {
Index: lib/LTO/LTOCodeGenerator.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/LTO/LTOCodeGenerator.cpp
+++ lib/LTO/LTOCodeGenerator.cpp
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include "llvm/Config/config.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/DataLayout.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/DebugInfo.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/DerivedTypes.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/DiagnosticInfo.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/DiagnosticPrinter.h"
@@ -78,6 +79,16 @@
     cl::init(false),
 #endif
     cl::Hidden);
+
+cl::opt<bool> LTOStripInvalidDebugInfo(
+    "lto-strip-invalid-debug-info",
+    cl::desc("Strip invalid debug info metadata during LTO instead of aborting."),
+#ifdef NDEBUG
+    cl::init(true),
+#else
+    cl::init(false),
+#endif
+    cl::Hidden);
 }
 
 LTOCodeGenerator::LTOCodeGenerator(LLVMContext &Context)
@@ -488,6 +499,15 @@
     return;
   HasVerifiedInput = true;
 
+  if (LTOStripInvalidDebugInfo) {
+    bool BrokenDebugInfo = false;
+    if (verifyModule(*MergedModule, &dbgs(), &BrokenDebugInfo))
+      report_fatal_error("Broken module found, compilation aborted!");
+    if (BrokenDebugInfo) {
+      emitWarning("Invalid debug info found, debug info will be stripped");
+      StripDebugInfo(*MergedModule);
+    }
+  }
   if (verifyModule(*MergedModule, &dbgs()))
     report_fatal_error("Broken module found, compilation aborted!");
 }
Index: test/LTO/X86/strip-debug-info.ll
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ test/LTO/X86/strip-debug-info.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+; RUN: not llvm-lto -lto-strip-invalid-debug-info=false \
+; RUN:     -o %t.o %S/Inputs/strip-debug-info.bc 2>&1 | \
+; RUN:     FileCheck %s -allow-empty -check-prefix=CHECK-ERR
+; RUN: llvm-lto -lto-strip-invalid-debug-info=true -exported-symbol _foo \
+; RUN:     -o %t.o %S/Inputs/strip-debug-info.bc 2>&1 | \
+; RUN:     FileCheck %s -allow-empty -check-prefix=CHECK-WARN
+; RUN: llvm-nm %t.o | FileCheck %s 
+
+; CHECK-ERR: Broken module found, compilation aborted
+; CHECK-WARN: Invalid debug info found, debug info will be stripped
+; CHECK: foo
+define void @foo() {
+  ret void
+}
+
+!llvm.module.flags = !{!0}
+!llvm.dbg.cu = !{!1}
+
+!0 = !{i32 2, !"Debug Info Version", i32 3}
+!1 = !DIFile(filename: "broken", directory: "")