diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/ProfileData/Coverage/CoverageMappingReader.h b/llvm/include/llvm/ProfileData/Coverage/CoverageMappingReader.h
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/ProfileData/Coverage/CoverageMappingReader.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/ProfileData/Coverage/CoverageMappingReader.h
@@ -232,6 +232,13 @@
              BinaryCoverageReader::DecompressedData &Decompressed);
 };
 
+// Whether to ignore coverage mapping regions that are invalid, for example
+// regions for which the frontend has indicated the start location comes after
+// the end location. These are typically bugs in the frontend generating source
+// location information, but by enabling this option users can have coverage
+// information for regions such as these silently ignored.
+extern cl::opt<bool> IgnoreMalformedCoverageMappingRegions;
+
 } // end namespace coverage
 } // end namespace llvm
 
diff --git a/llvm/lib/ProfileData/Coverage/CoverageMappingReader.cpp b/llvm/lib/ProfileData/Coverage/CoverageMappingReader.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/ProfileData/Coverage/CoverageMappingReader.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/ProfileData/Coverage/CoverageMappingReader.cpp
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
 STATISTIC(CovMapNumRecords, "The # of coverage function records");
 STATISTIC(CovMapNumUsedRecords, "The # of used coverage function records");
 
+cl::opt<bool> coverage::IgnoreMalformedCoverageMappingRegions(
+    "ignore-malformed-coverage-mapping-regions",
+    cl::desc("Ignore malformed code coverage mapping regions"),
+    cl::init(false));
+
 void CoverageMappingIterator::increment() {
   if (ReadErr != coveragemap_error::success)
     return;
@@ -297,8 +302,16 @@
     auto CMR = CounterMappingRegion(C, InferredFileID, ExpandedFileID,
                                     LineStart, ColumnStart,
                                     LineStart + NumLines, ColumnEnd, Kind);
-    if (CMR.startLoc() > CMR.endLoc())
-      return make_error<CoverageMapError>(coveragemap_error::malformed);
+    if (CMR.startLoc() > CMR.endLoc()) {
+      LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Malformed coverage mapping region: "
+                        << CMR.startLoc().first << ":" << CMR.startLoc().second
+                        << " -> " << CMR.endLoc().first << ":"
+                        << CMR.endLoc().second << "\n");
+      if (IgnoreMalformedCoverageMappingRegions)
+        continue;
+      else
+        return make_error<CoverageMapError>(coveragemap_error::malformed);
+    }
     MappingRegions.push_back(CMR);
   }
   return Error::success();
diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-cov/warnings.h b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-cov/warnings.h
--- a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-cov/warnings.h
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-cov/warnings.h
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@
 
 // RUN: not llvm-cov report %S/Inputs/malformedRegions.covmapping -instr-profile %S/Inputs/elf_binary_comdat.profdata 2>&1 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=MALFORMED-REGION
 // MALFORMED-REGION: malformedRegions.covmapping: Failed to load coverage: Malformed coverage data
+// RUN: llvm-cov report -ignore-malformed-coverage-mapping-regions %S/Inputs/malformedRegions.covmapping -instr-profile %S/Inputs/elf_binary_comdat.profdata 2>&1 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=IGNORE-MALFORMED-REGION
+// IGNORE-MALFORMED-REGION: warning: 1 functions have mismatched data
+// IGNORE-MALFORMED-REGION-NOT: Failed to load coverage