diff --git a/clang/lib/Sema/SemaInit.cpp b/clang/lib/Sema/SemaInit.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/Sema/SemaInit.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Sema/SemaInit.cpp
@@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@
 
   expr = Result.getAs<Expr>();
   // FIXME: Why are we updating the syntactic init list?
-  if (!VerifyOnly)
+  if (!VerifyOnly && expr)
     IList->setInit(Index, expr);
 
   if (hadError)
diff --git a/clang/test/AST/ast-dump-recovery.cpp b/clang/test/AST/ast-dump-recovery.cpp
--- a/clang/test/AST/ast-dump-recovery.cpp
+++ b/clang/test/AST/ast-dump-recovery.cpp
@@ -181,3 +181,14 @@
 // Verified that the generated call operator is invalid.
 // CHECK: |-CXXMethodDecl {{.*}} invalid operator() 'auto () const -> auto'
 using Escape = decltype([] { return undef(); }());
+
+// CHECK:      VarDecl {{.*}} NoCrashOnInvalidInitList
+// CHECK-NEXT: `-RecoveryExpr {{.*}} '<dependent type>' contains-errors lvalue
+// CHECK-NEXT:   `-InitListExpr
+// CHECK-NEXT:     `-DesignatedInitExpr {{.*}} 'void'
+// CHECK-NEXT:       `-CXXNullPtrLiteralExpr {{.*}} 'nullptr_t'
+struct {
+  int& abc;
+} NoCrashOnInvalidInitList = {
+  .abc = nullptr,
+};