diff --git a/Lib/test/test_descr.py b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
index dd95dde..e667efb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_descr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
@@ -1748,6 +1748,10 @@
     verify((a + 0).__class__ is long)
     verify((0 + a).__class__ is long)
 
+    # Check that negative clones don't segfault
+    a = longclone(-1)
+    vereq(a.__dict__, {})
+
     class precfloat(float):
         __slots__ = ['prec']
         def __init__(self, value=0.0, prec=12):
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 28157a4..a3ead13 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@
 Albert Hofkamp
 Gerrit Holl
 Philip Homburg
+Naofumi Honda
 Jeffrey Honig
 Rob Hooft
 Brian Hooper
diff --git a/Objects/abstract.c b/Objects/abstract.c
index 2acfd08..cae474c 100644
--- a/Objects/abstract.c
+++ b/Objects/abstract.c
@@ -933,8 +933,16 @@
 		Py_INCREF(o);
 		return o;
 	}
-	if (PyLong_Check(o))
-		return _PyLong_Copy((PyLongObject *)o);
+	if (PyLong_Check(o)) {
+		PyObject *res;
+
+		res = _PyLong_Copy((PyLongObject *)o);
+		if (res != NULL)
+			((PyLongObject *)res)->ob_size =
+				((PyLongObject *)o)->ob_size;
+
+		return res;
+	}
 	if (PyString_Check(o))
 		/* need to do extra error checking that PyLong_FromString() 
 		 * doesn't do.  In particular long('9.5') must raise an
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index 5812178..8babf79 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -1191,8 +1191,14 @@
 	if (dictoffset == 0)
 		return NULL;
 	if (dictoffset < 0) {
-		const size_t size = _PyObject_VAR_SIZE(tp,
-					((PyVarObject *)obj)->ob_size);
+		int tsize;
+		size_t size;
+
+		tsize = ((PyVarObject *)obj)->ob_size;
+		if (tsize < 0)
+			tsize = -tsize;
+		size = _PyObject_VAR_SIZE(tp, tsize);
+
 		dictoffset += (long)size;
 		assert(dictoffset > 0);
 		assert(dictoffset % SIZEOF_VOID_P == 0);