diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Bufferize.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Bufferize.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Bufferize.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Bufferize.cpp
@@ -59,10 +59,6 @@
       continue;
     }
 
-    if (auto alloc = resultTensor.getDefiningOp<memref::AllocOp>()) {
-      resultBuffers.push_back(resultTensor);
-      continue;
-    }
     // Allocate buffers for statically-shaped results.
     if (memrefType.hasStaticShape()) {
       resultBuffers.push_back(b.create<memref::AllocOp>(loc, memrefType));
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/Linalg/bufferize.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/Linalg/bufferize.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/Linalg/bufferize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/Linalg/bufferize.mlir
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
 // CHECK: #map = affine_map<(d0) -> (d0)>
 // CHECK-LABEL: func @init_tensor(
 // CHECK-SAME:      %[[IN:.*]]: tensor<?xf32>, %[[SIZE:.*]]: index)
-// CHECK:         %[[OUT_BUF:.*]] = memref.alloc(%[[SIZE]]) : memref<?xf32>
 // CHECK:         %[[MEMREF:.*]] = memref.buffer_cast %[[IN]] : memref<?xf32>
+// CHECK:         %[[OUT_BUF:.*]] = memref.alloc(%[[SIZE]]) : memref<?xf32>
 // CHECK:         linalg.generic
 // CHECK-SAME:    ins(%[[MEMREF]] : memref<?xf32>)
 // CHECK-SAME:    outs(%[[OUT_BUF]] : memref<?xf32>) {