diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineInstr.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineInstr.cpp
index c8e3e5bb01ac0a..08d786f8f12cc3 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineInstr.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineInstr.cpp
@@ -187,8 +187,8 @@ static void moveOperands(MachineOperand *Dst, MachineOperand *Src,
                          unsigned NumOps, MachineRegisterInfo *MRI) {
   if (MRI)
     return MRI->moveOperands(Dst, Src, NumOps);
-
   // MachineOperand is a trivially copyable type so we can just use memmove.
+  assert(Dst && Src && "Unknown operands");
   std::memmove(Dst, Src, NumOps * sizeof(MachineOperand));
 }