diff --git a/test/tools/llvm-profdata/errors.test b/test/tools/llvm-profdata/errors.test
index 487da74b86b..6ccb0848698 100644
--- a/test/tools/llvm-profdata/errors.test
+++ b/test/tools/llvm-profdata/errors.test
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ HASH: foo4-1.profdata: foo: Function hash mismatch
 RUN: llvm-profdata merge %p/Inputs/overflow.profdata %p/Inputs/overflow.profdata -o /dev/null 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=OVERFLOW
 OVERFLOW: overflow.profdata: overflow: Counter overflow
 
+RUN: not llvm-profdata show %p/Inputs/invalid-count-later.profdata 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=INVALID-COUNT-LATER
 RUN: not llvm-profdata merge %p/Inputs/invalid-count-later.profdata %p/Inputs/invalid-count-later.profdata 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=INVALID-COUNT-LATER
 INVALID-COUNT-LATER: error: {{.*}}invalid-count-later.profdata: Malformed profile data
 
+RUN: not llvm-profdata show %p/Inputs/bad-hash.profdata 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=BAD-HASH
 RUN: not llvm-profdata merge %p/Inputs/bad-hash.profdata %p/Inputs/bad-hash.profdata 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=BAD-HASH
 BAD-HASH: error: {{.*}}bad-hash.profdata: Malformed profile data
diff --git a/tools/llvm-profdata/llvm-profdata.cpp b/tools/llvm-profdata/llvm-profdata.cpp
index 5a0e27fd6d3..397b5239692 100644
--- a/tools/llvm-profdata/llvm-profdata.cpp
+++ b/tools/llvm-profdata/llvm-profdata.cpp
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ int show_main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
     if (Show && ShowCounts)
       OS << "]\n";
   }
+  if (Reader->hasError())
+    exitWithError(Reader->getError().message(), Filename);
 
   if (ShowAllFunctions || !ShowFunction.empty())
     OS << "Functions shown: " << ShownFunctions << "\n";