diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h b/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
index ad31517a1ea7a..337efd6411356 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ namespace llvm {
   /// situations where the character data resides in some other buffer, whose
   /// lifetime extends past that of the StringRef. For this reason, it is not in
   /// general safe to store a StringRef.
-  class StringRef {
+  class [[gsl::Pointer]] StringRef {
   public:
     static const size_t npos = ~size_t(0);