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
@@ -322,9 +322,10 @@
 
     // Mark all Standard operations legal.
     target.addLegalDialect<AffineDialect, math::MathDialect,
-                           memref::MemRefDialect, StandardOpsDialect>();
+                           memref::MemRefDialect, StandardOpsDialect,
+                           tensor::TensorDialect>();
     target.addIllegalOp<InitTensorOp, tensor::ExtractSliceOp,
-                        tensor::InsertSliceOp>();
+                        tensor::InsertSliceOp, PadTensorOp>();
 
     // Mark all Linalg operations illegal as long as they work on tensors.
     auto isLegalOperation = [&](Operation *op) {