diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 40ab2d9011..23f4e680d4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Jun 23 14:32:42 2015  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* error.c (name_err_receiver): raise ArgumentError if no receiver
+	  is available on this exception object.  [Feature #10881]
+
 Tue Jun 23 09:48:34 2015  Eric Wong  <e@80x24.org>
 
 	* dir.c (check_dirname): avoid volatile, use return value
diff --git a/error.c b/error.c
index b668375a55..70ebe6bb67 100644
--- a/error.c
+++ b/error.c
@@ -1264,7 +1264,10 @@ name_err_receiver(VALUE self)
 {
     VALUE *ptr, mesg = rb_attr_get(self, id_mesg);
 
-    TypedData_Get_Struct(mesg, VALUE, &name_err_mesg_data_type, ptr);
+    if (!rb_typeddata_is_kind_of(mesg, &name_err_mesg_data_type)) {
+	rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "no receiver is available");
+    }
+    ptr = DATA_PTR(mesg);
     return ptr[NAME_ERR_MESG__RECV];
 }