diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/Transforms/BufferizableOpInterfaceImpl.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/Transforms/BufferizableOpInterfaceImpl.cpp
index b08283f007078..997e442bc9ae2 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/Transforms/BufferizableOpInterfaceImpl.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/Transforms/BufferizableOpInterfaceImpl.cpp
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ struct DimOpInterface
 struct EmptyOpInterface
     : public BufferizableOpInterface::ExternalModel<EmptyOpInterface,
                                                     tensor::EmptyOp> {
+  bool bufferizesToAllocation(Operation *op, Value value) const { return true; }
+
   bool resultBufferizesToMemoryWrite(Operation *op, OpResult opResult,
                                      const AnalysisState &state) const {
     // The returned tensor does not have specified contents.