diff --git a/llvm/lib/IR/ConstantFold.cpp b/llvm/lib/IR/ConstantFold.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/IR/ConstantFold.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/IR/ConstantFold.cpp
@@ -833,6 +833,12 @@
   ConstantInt *CIdx = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(Idx);
   if (!CIdx) return nullptr;
 
+  // Do not iterate on scalable vector. The num of elements is unknown at
+  // compile-time.
+  VectorType *ValTy = cast<VectorType>(Val->getType());
+  if (ValTy->isScalable())
+    return nullptr;
+
   unsigned NumElts = Val->getType()->getVectorNumElements();
   if (CIdx->uge(NumElts))
     return UndefValue::get(Val->getType());
diff --git a/llvm/test/Analysis/ConstantFolding/insertelement.ll b/llvm/test/Analysis/ConstantFolding/insertelement.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/Analysis/ConstantFolding/insertelement.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_test_checks.py
+; RUN: opt < %s -constprop -S | FileCheck %s
+
+
+define <4 x i32> @insertelement_fixedlength_constant() {
+; CHECK-LABEL: @insertelement_fixedlength_constant(
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret <4 x i32> <i32 1, i32 undef, i32 undef, i32 undef>
+;
+  %i = insertelement <4 x i32> undef, i32 1, i32 0
+  ret <4 x i32> %i
+}
+
+define <vscale x 4 x i32> @insertelement_scalable_constant() {
+; CHECK-LABEL: @insertelement_scalable_constant(
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret <vscale x 4 x i32> insertelement (<vscale x 4 x i32> undef, i32 1, i32 0)
+;
+  %i = insertelement <vscale x 4 x i32> undef, i32 1, i32 0
+  ret <vscale x 4 x i32> %i
+}