diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Transforms.cpp
@@ -592,6 +592,10 @@
   SmallVector<int64_t> rootTileSizes(options.tileSizes.begin(),
                                      options.tileSizes.begin() +
                                          rootOp.getNumLoops());
+  if (llvm::all_of(rootTileSizes, [](int64_t ts) { return ts == 0; })) {
+    return rewriter.notifyMatchFailure(
+        op, "all tile sizes are zero, nothing to do");
+  }
   SmallVector<int64_t> rootInterchange =
       options.tileInterchange.empty()
           ? llvm::to_vector<6>(llvm::seq<int64_t>(0, rootOp.getNumLoops()))