diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/Transforms/BufferizableOpInterfaceImpl.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/Transforms/BufferizableOpInterfaceImpl.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/Transforms/BufferizableOpInterfaceImpl.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/Transforms/BufferizableOpInterfaceImpl.cpp
@@ -264,6 +264,12 @@
 struct EmptyOpInterface
     : public BufferizableOpInterface::ExternalModel<EmptyOpInterface,
                                                     tensor::EmptyOp> {
+  bool resultBufferizesToMemoryWrite(Operation *op, OpResult opResult,
+                                     const AnalysisState &state) const {
+    // The returned tensor does not have specified contents.
+    return false;
+  }
+
   LogicalResult bufferize(Operation *op, RewriterBase &rewriter,
                           const BufferizationOptions &options) const {
     // tensor.empty ops are used to indicate the shape of a tensor. They have