diff --git a/mlir/lib/Conversion/MemRefToLLVM/MemRefToLLVM.cpp b/mlir/lib/Conversion/MemRefToLLVM/MemRefToLLVM.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Conversion/MemRefToLLVM/MemRefToLLVM.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Conversion/MemRefToLLVM/MemRefToLLVM.cpp
@@ -1848,6 +1848,12 @@
       return viewOp.emitWarning("cannot cast to non-strided shape"), failure();
     assert(offset == 0 && "expected offset to be 0");
 
+    // Target memref must be contiguous in memory (innermost stride is 1), or
+    // empty (special case when at least one of the memref dimensions is 0).
+    if (!strides.empty() && (strides.back() != 1 && strides.back() != 0))
+      return viewOp.emitWarning("cannot cast to non-contiguous shape"),
+             failure();
+
     // Create the descriptor.
     MemRefDescriptor sourceMemRef(adaptor.source());
     auto targetMemRef = MemRefDescriptor::undef(rewriter, loc, targetDescTy);
@@ -1884,9 +1890,6 @@
       return rewriter.replaceOp(viewOp, {targetMemRef}), success();
 
     // Fields 4 and 5: Update sizes and strides.
-    if (strides.back() != 1)
-      return viewOp.emitWarning("cannot cast to non-contiguous shape"),
-             failure();
     Value stride = nullptr, nextSize = nullptr;
     for (int i = viewMemRefType.getRank() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
       // Update size.
diff --git a/mlir/test/Conversion/MemRefToLLVM/memref-to-llvm.mlir b/mlir/test/Conversion/MemRefToLLVM/memref-to-llvm.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Conversion/MemRefToLLVM/memref-to-llvm.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Conversion/MemRefToLLVM/memref-to-llvm.mlir
@@ -89,6 +89,29 @@
 
 // -----
 
+// CHECK-LABL: func @view_empty_memref(
+// CHECK:        %[[ARG0:.*]]: index,
+// CHECK:        %[[ARG1:.*]]: memref<0xi8>)
+func.func @view_empty_memref(%offset: index, %mem: memref<0xi8>) {
+
+  // CHECK: llvm.mlir.undef : !llvm.struct<(ptr<f32>, ptr<f32>, i64, array<2 x i64>, array<2 x i64>)>
+  // CHECK: llvm.mlir.constant(0 : index) : i64
+  // CHECK: llvm.insertvalue %{{.*}}, %{{.*}}[2] : !llvm.struct<(ptr<f32>, ptr<f32>, i64, array<2 x i64>, array<2 x i64>)>
+  // CHECK: llvm.mlir.constant(4 : index) : i64
+  // CHECK: llvm.insertvalue %{{.*}}, %{{.*}}[3, 1] : !llvm.struct<(ptr<f32>, ptr<f32>, i64, array<2 x i64>, array<2 x i64>)>
+  // CHECK: llvm.mlir.constant(0 : index) : i64
+  // CHECK: llvm.insertvalue %{{.*}}, %{{.*}}[4, 1] : !llvm.struct<(ptr<f32>, ptr<f32>, i64, array<2 x i64>, array<2 x i64>)>
+  // CHECK: llvm.mlir.constant(0 : index) : i64
+  // CHECK: llvm.insertvalue %{{.*}}, %{{.*}}[3, 0] : !llvm.struct<(ptr<f32>, ptr<f32>, i64, array<2 x i64>, array<2 x i64>)>
+  // CHECK: llvm.mlir.constant(0 : index) : i64
+  // CHECK: = llvm.insertvalue %{{.*}}, %{{.*}}[4, 0] : !llvm.struct<(ptr<f32>, ptr<f32>, i64, array<2 x i64>, array<2 x i64>)>
+  %0 = memref.view %mem[%offset][] : memref<0xi8> to memref<0x4xf32>
+
+  return
+}
+
+// -----
+
 // CHECK-LABEL: func @subview(
 // CHECK:         %[[MEM:.*]]: memref<{{.*}}>,
 // CHECK:         %[[ARG0f:[a-zA-Z0-9]*]]: index,