diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/SROA.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/SROA.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/SROA.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/SROA.cpp
@@ -1886,13 +1886,19 @@
   SmallVector<VectorType *, 4> CandidateTys;
   Type *CommonEltTy = nullptr;
   bool HaveCommonEltTy = true;
+  VectorType *CommonVecTy = nullptr;
   auto CheckCandidateType = [&](Type *Ty) {
     if (auto *VTy = dyn_cast<VectorType>(Ty)) {
       CandidateTys.push_back(VTy);
-      if (!CommonEltTy)
+      if (!CommonEltTy) {
         CommonEltTy = VTy->getElementType();
-      else if (CommonEltTy != VTy->getElementType())
+        CommonVecTy = VTy;
+      } else if (CommonEltTy != VTy->getElementType()) {
         HaveCommonEltTy = false;
+        CommonVecTy = nullptr;
+      } else if (CommonVecTy->getNumElements() != VTy->getNumElements()) {
+        CommonVecTy = nullptr;
+      }
     }
   };
   // Consider any loads or stores that are the exact size of the slice.
@@ -1941,7 +1947,14 @@
     CandidateTys.erase(
         std::unique(CandidateTys.begin(), CandidateTys.end(), RankVectorTypes),
         CandidateTys.end());
+
+    // In presence of bitcast between different vector, we may end up with
+    // CandidateTys holding different vector types with the same element type
+    // and we can't cast between different vector types.
+  } else if (!CommonVecTy) {
+    return nullptr;
   } else {
+
 // The only way to have the same element type in every vector type is to
 // have the same vector type. Check that and remove all but one.
 #ifndef NDEBUG
diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/SROA/bitcast-vectype.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/SROA/bitcast-vectype.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/SROA/bitcast-vectype.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+; RUN: opt < %s -sroa -S | FileCheck %s
+; check that sroa does nothing on alloca followed by a bitcast
+target datalayout = "e-p:64:64:64-i8:8:8-i8:8:8-i86:16:16-i32:32:32-i64:32:64-f32:32:32-f64:64:64-v64:64:64-v128:128:128-a0:0:64-n8:16:32:64"
+%t = type { <1 x i8> }
+
+define <3 x i8> @vector_bitcast() {
+	; CHECK-LABEL: @vector_bitcast
+    ; CHECK: %b = alloca [2 x %t]
+	; CHECK: [[VAL0:%[^ ]+]] = bitcast [2 x %t]* %b to <2 x i8>*
+    ; CHECK: store <2 x i8> <i8 0, i8 1>, <2 x i8>* [[VAL0]]
+    ; CHECK: [[VAL1:%[^ ]+]] = bitcast [2 x %t]* %b to <3 x i8>*
+    ; CHECK: [[VAL2:%[^ ]+]] = load <3 x i8>, <3 x i8>* [[VAL1]]
+    ; CHECK: ret <3 x i8> [[VAL2]]
+	%b = alloca [2 x %t]
+	%a = bitcast [2 x %t]* %b to <2 x i8>*
+	store <2 x i8> <i8 0,i8 1>, <2 x i8>* %a
+	%cast = bitcast <2 x i8>* %a to <3 x i8>*
+	%vec = load <3 x i8>, <3 x i8>* %cast
+	ret <3 x i8> %vec
+}