diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Bufferization/IR/BufferizationOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Bufferization/IR/BufferizationOps.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Bufferization/IR/BufferizationOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Bufferization/IR/BufferizationOps.cpp
@@ -450,16 +450,21 @@
 
     Value source = cloneOp.getInput();
 
-    // This only finds dealloc operations for the immediate value. It should
-    // also consider aliases. That would also make the safety check below
-    // redundant.
+    // We aim to check dealloc op for aliases below, e.g. ReshapeOp
+    // which otherwise could prevent removal of unnecessary allocs.
+    Operation *source_op = cloneOp.getInput().getDefiningOp();
+    if (source_op)
+      while (auto iface = dyn_cast<ViewLikeOpInterface>(source_op))
+        source_op = iface.getViewSource().getDefiningOp();
+    
     llvm::Optional<Operation *> maybeCloneDeallocOp =
         memref::findDealloc(cloneOp.getOutput());
     // Skip if either of them has > 1 deallocate operations.
     if (!maybeCloneDeallocOp.has_value())
       return failure();
+    Value source_val = source_op ? source_op->getResult(0) : source;
     llvm::Optional<Operation *> maybeSourceDeallocOp =
-        memref::findDealloc(source);
+        memref::findDealloc(source_val);
     if (!maybeSourceDeallocOp.has_value())
       return failure();
     Operation *cloneDeallocOp = *maybeCloneDeallocOp;
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/Bufferization/canonicalize.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/Bufferization/canonicalize.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/Bufferization/canonicalize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/Bufferization/canonicalize.mlir
@@ -256,3 +256,18 @@
 // CHECK:   %[[T0:.+]] = bufferization.alloc_tensor() : tensor<4x5x6xf32>
 // CHECK:   %[[T1:.+]] = tensor.cast %[[T0]] : tensor<4x5x6xf32> to tensor<4x5x?xf32>
 // CHECK:   return %[[T1]]
+
+// -----
+
+func.func @dealloc_canonicalize_clone_removal(%arg0: memref<?xindex>) -> memref<*xf32> {
+  %c1 = arith.constant 1 : index
+  %0 = memref.alloc(%c1) : memref<?xf32>
+  %1 = memref.reshape %0(%arg0) : (memref<?xf32>, memref<?xindex>) -> memref<*xf32>
+  %2 = bufferization.clone %1 : memref<*xf32> to memref<*xf32>
+  memref.dealloc %0 : memref<?xf32>
+  return %2 : memref<*xf32>
+}
+// CHECK-LABEL: @dealloc_canonicalize_clone_removal
+//   CHECK-NOT:   bufferization.clone
+//   CHECK-NOT:   memref.dealloc
+//       CHECK:   return {{.*}}