diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/Support/YAMLTraits.h b/llvm/include/llvm/Support/YAMLTraits.h
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/Support/YAMLTraits.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/Support/YAMLTraits.h
@@ -649,7 +649,8 @@
 inline QuotingType needsQuotes(StringRef S) {
   if (S.empty())
     return QuotingType::Single;
-  if (isspace(S.front()) || isspace(S.back()))
+  if (isspace(static_cast<unsigned char>(S.front())) ||
+      isspace(static_cast<unsigned char>(S.back())))
     return QuotingType::Single;
   if (isNull(S))
     return QuotingType::Single;
diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/obj2yaml/invalid-section-name.yaml b/llvm/test/tools/obj2yaml/invalid-section-name.yaml
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/obj2yaml/invalid-section-name.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+## Check we do not crash/assert when dumping a broken section name.
+## Here we replace "foo" name with a sequence of characters that
+## do are not representable as unsigned char.
+## We used to have an assert for this case before. 
+
+# RUN: yaml2obj %s -o %t
+# RUN: obj2yaml %t | FileCheck %s
+
+# CHECK:      --- !ELF
+# CHECK-NEXT: FileHeader:
+# CHECK-NEXT:   Class:   ELFCLASS64
+# CHECK-NEXT:   Data:    ELFDATA2LSB
+# CHECK-NEXT:   Type:    ET_REL
+# CHECK-NEXT:   Machine: EM_X86_64
+# CHECK-NEXT: Sections:
+# CHECK-NEXT:   - Name: "{{.*}}"
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Type: SHT_PROGBITS
+# CHECK-NEXT: ...
+
+--- !ELF
+FileHeader:
+  Class:   ELFCLASS64
+  Data:    ELFDATA2LSB
+  Type:    ET_REL
+  Machine: EM_X86_64
+Sections:
+  - Name: foo
+    Type: SHT_PROGBITS
+  - Name: .shstrtab
+    Type: SHT_STRTAB
+    Content: "00FEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFE00"