diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/iso_fortran_binding_uint8_array.f90 b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/iso_fortran_binding_uint8_array.f90
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b28bfa7593b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/iso_fortran_binding_uint8_array.f90
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+! { dg-do run }
+! { dg-additional-sources iso_fortran_binding_uint8_array_driver.c }
+
+module m
+   use iso_c_binding
+contains
+   subroutine fsub( x ) bind(C, name="fsub")
+      integer(c_int8_t), intent(inout) :: x(:)
+      x = x+1
+   end subroutine
+end module
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/iso_fortran_binding_uint8_array_driver.c b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/iso_fortran_binding_uint8_array_driver.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bfd567bba95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/iso_fortran_binding_uint8_array_driver.c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <inttypes.h>
+#include "ISO_Fortran_binding.h"
+
+extern void fsub(CFI_cdesc_t *);
+
+int main(void)
+{
+   int8_t x[] = {1,2,3,4};
+   int N = sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]);
+
+   CFI_CDESC_T(1) dat;
+   CFI_index_t ext[1];
+   ext[0] = (CFI_index_t)N;
+   int rc = CFI_establish((CFI_cdesc_t *)&dat, &x, CFI_attribute_other,
+                      CFI_type_int8_t, 0, (CFI_rank_t)1, ext);
+   printf("CFI_establish call returned: %d\n", rc);
+
+   fsub((CFI_cdesc_t *)&dat );
+
+   for (int i=0; i<N; i++)
+       printf("%"PRId8"\n", x[i]);
+   return 0;
+}
diff --git a/libgfortran/runtime/ISO_Fortran_binding.c b/libgfortran/runtime/ISO_Fortran_binding.c
index 86ff25afb23..3746ec1c681 100644
--- a/libgfortran/runtime/ISO_Fortran_binding.c
+++ b/libgfortran/runtime/ISO_Fortran_binding.c
@@ -345,8 +345,7 @@ int CFI_establish (CFI_cdesc_t *dv, void *base_addr, CFI_attribute_t attribute,
   dv->base_addr = base_addr;
 
   if (type == CFI_type_char || type == CFI_type_ucs4_char ||
-      type == CFI_type_signed_char || type == CFI_type_struct ||
-      type == CFI_type_other)
+      type == CFI_type_struct || type == CFI_type_other)
     dv->elem_len = elem_len;
   else
     {