diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_cross_entropy_loss.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_cross_entropy_loss.py
index b30a5227a9a93c4970b95e814f8e6368f06644a2..6a037ad6be7c559499c147422819b75fbc4332e7 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_cross_entropy_loss.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_cross_entropy_loss.py
@@ -1377,6 +1377,15 @@ class TestCrossEntropyFAPIError(unittest.TestCase):
 
             self.assertRaises(ValueError, test_LabelValue)
 
+            def test_LabelValueNeg():
+                input_data = paddle.rand(shape=[20, 100])
+                label_data = paddle.randint(0, 100, shape=[5, 1], dtype="int64")
+                label_data[0] = -1
+                paddle.nn.functional.cross_entropy(
+                    input=input_data, label=label_data)
+
+            self.assertRaises(ValueError, test_LabelValueNeg)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()