diff --git a/src/digest.c b/src/digest.c
index 0d82eb6b4..96b811b6c 100644
--- a/src/digest.c
+++ b/src/digest.c
@@ -1397,11 +1397,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
         digest_length = xdectoumax (optarg, 0, UINTMAX_MAX, "",
                                 _("invalid length"), 0);
         digest_length_str = optarg;
-        if (digest_length % 8 != 0)
-          {
-            error (0, 0, _("invalid length: %s"), quote (digest_length_str));
-            error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("length is not a multiple of 8"));
-          }
         break;
 #endif
 #if !HASH_ALGO_SUM
@@ -1476,6 +1471,11 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
     error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
            _("--length is only supported with --algorithm=blake2b"));
 # endif
+  if (digest_length % 8 != 0)
+    {
+      error (0, 0, _("invalid length: %s"), quote (digest_length_str));
+      error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("length is not a multiple of 8"));
+    }
   if (digest_length > BLAKE2B_MAX_LEN * 8)
     {
       error (0, 0, _("invalid length: %s"), quote (digest_length_str));
diff --git a/tests/cksum/b2sum.sh b/tests/cksum/b2sum.sh
index cc480a478..43a62d2fb 100755
--- a/tests/cksum/b2sum.sh
+++ b/tests/cksum/b2sum.sh
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ returns_ 1 $prog -c crash.check || fail=1
 printf '0A0BA0' > overflow.check || framework_failure_
 returns_ 1 $prog -c overflow.check || fail=1
 
+# This would fail before coreutil-9.4
+# Only validate the last specified, used length
+$prog -l 123 -l 128 /dev/null || fail=1
+
 done
 
 Exit $fail