diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/modernize/UseTrailingReturnTypeCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/modernize/UseTrailingReturnTypeCheck.cpp
index 71cb0300ec627..41b7e1739ee0c 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/modernize/UseTrailingReturnTypeCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/modernize/UseTrailingReturnTypeCheck.cpp
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ classifyToken(const FunctionDecl &F, Preprocessor &PP, Token Tok) {
   bool ContainsSomethingElse = false;
 
   Token End;
+  End.startToken();
   End.setKind(tok::eof);
   SmallVector<Token, 2> Stream{Tok, End};