diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/ComprehensiveBufferize.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/ComprehensiveBufferize.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/ComprehensiveBufferize.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/ComprehensiveBufferize.cpp
@@ -2190,7 +2190,8 @@
     newInputBuffer = createNewAllocDeallocPairForShapedValue(
         b, loc, writeOp.source(), aliasInfo);
     Value v = lookup(bvm, writeOp.source());
-    b.create<CopyOp>(loc, v, newInputBuffer);
+    if (!isInitTensorOp(writeOp.source()))
+      b.create<CopyOp>(loc, v, newInputBuffer);
   } else {
     // InPlace write will result in memref.tensor_load(x) which must
     // canonicalize away with one of it uses.