diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/ComprehensiveBufferize/BufferizableOpInterface.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/ComprehensiveBufferize/BufferizableOpInterface.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/ComprehensiveBufferize/BufferizableOpInterface.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/ComprehensiveBufferize/BufferizableOpInterface.cpp
@@ -406,8 +406,9 @@
     if (auto bufferizableOp = options.dynCastBufferizableOp(lastWrite))
       if (!bufferizableOp.isMemoryWrite(lastWrite.cast<OpResult>(), *this))
         skipCopy = true;
-    // Do not copy if the copied data is never read.
-    if (!isValueRead(result))
+    // Do not copy if the copied data is never read. (Neither by this ops nor by
+    // any following op.)
+    if (!bufferizesToMemoryRead(*opOperand) && !isValueRead(result))
       skipCopy = true;
     // Do not copy if this op does not read the data, but writes it.
     if (bufferizesToMemoryWrite(*opOperand) &&