diff --git a/base/reshapedarray.jl b/base/reshapedarray.jl
index 2982c8b3b9b8d..52a8fe755e0ae 100644
--- a/base/reshapedarray.jl
+++ b/base/reshapedarray.jl
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ end
 function _reshape(p::Tuple{AbstractArray,LinearSlow}, dims::Dims)
     parent = p[1]
     strds = front(size_strides(parent))
-    mi = map(SignedMultiplicativeInverse, strds)
+    strds1 = map(s->max(1,s), strds)  # for resizing empty arrays
+    mi = map(SignedMultiplicativeInverse, strds1)
     ReshapedArray(parent, dims, reverse(mi))
 end
 
diff --git a/test/arrayops.jl b/test/arrayops.jl
index 870dd74e1ad35..b0992b154fe9c 100644
--- a/test/arrayops.jl
+++ b/test/arrayops.jl
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ a = reshape(b, (2, 2, 2, 2, 2))
 @test a[2,1,2,2,1] == b[14]
 @test a[2,2,2,2,2] == b[end]
 
+# reshaping linearslow arrays
+a = zeros(1, 5)
+s = sub(a, :, [2,3,5])
+@test length(reshape(s, length(s))) == 3
+a = zeros(0, 5)  # an empty linearslow array
+s = sub(a, :, [2,3,5])
+@test length(reshape(s, length(s))) == 0
+
 a = rand(1, 1, 8, 8, 1)
 @test @inferred(squeeze(a, 1)) == @inferred(squeeze(a, (1,))) == reshape(a, (1, 8, 8, 1))
 @test @inferred(squeeze(a, (1, 5))) == squeeze(a, (5, 1)) == reshape(a, (1, 8, 8))