diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
index 613adeb5eeaaf..25c2fe71f5ff4 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
@@ -6743,7 +6743,7 @@ OpFoldResult BitCastOp::fold(FoldAdaptor adaptor) {
     if (intPack.isSplat()) {
       auto splat = intPack.getSplatValue<IntegerAttr>();
 
-      if (llvm::isa<IntegerType>(dstElemType)) {
+      if (llvm::isa<IntegerType>(dstElemType) && srcElemType.isIntOrFloat()) {
         uint64_t srcBitWidth = srcElemType.getIntOrFloatBitWidth();
         uint64_t dstBitWidth = dstElemType.getIntOrFloatBitWidth();
 
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
index 8126389212ce6..82b2cb633d1c9 100644
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
@@ -1371,6 +1371,19 @@ func.func @bitcast_i8_to_i32() -> (vector<4xi32>, vector<4xi32>) {
 
 // -----
 
+// Verify that bitcast with index source element type does not crash (the fold
+// must not call getIntOrFloatBitWidth on a non-integer/float type).
+// CHECK-LABEL: func @bitcast_index_no_fold
+//       CHECK: %[[CST:.+]] = arith.constant dense<0> : vector<16xindex>
+//       CHECK: vector.bitcast %[[CST]] : vector<16xindex> to vector<16xi64>
+func.func @bitcast_index_no_fold() -> vector<16xi64> {
+  %cst = arith.constant dense<0> : vector<16xindex>
+  %0 = vector.bitcast %cst : vector<16xindex> to vector<16xi64>
+  return %0 : vector<16xi64>
+}
+
+// -----
+
 // CHECK-LABEL: broadcast_poison
 //       CHECK:  %[[POISON:.*]] = ub.poison : vector<4x6xi8>
 //       CHECK:  return %[[POISON]] : vector<4x6xi8>