diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/BadSignalToKillThreadCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/BadSignalToKillThreadCheck.cpp
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/BadSignalToKillThreadCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/BadSignalToKillThreadCheck.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
       return llvm::None;
     const MacroInfo *MI = PP->getMacroInfo(It->first);
     const Token &T = MI->tokens().back();
+    if (!T.isLiteral())
+      return llvm::None;
     StringRef ValueStr = StringRef(T.getLiteralData(), T.getLength());
 
     llvm::APInt IntValue;
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone-bad-signal-to-kill-thread-sigterm-not-a-literal.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone-bad-signal-to-kill-thread-sigterm-not-a-literal.cpp
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone-bad-signal-to-kill-thread-sigterm-not-a-literal.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// RUN: clang-tidy %s --checks=-*,bugprone-bad-signal-to-kill-thread -- | count 0
+
+#define SIGTERM ((unsigned)15) // no-crash
+using pthread_t = int;
+int pthread_kill(pthread_t thread, int sig);
+
+int func() {
+  pthread_t thread;
+  return pthread_kill(thread, 0);
+}