diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Transforms/CodegenUtils.h b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Transforms/CodegenUtils.h
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Transforms/CodegenUtils.h
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Transforms/CodegenUtils.h
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@
 
 /// Returns the equivalent of `void*` for opaque arguments to the
 /// execution engine.
-Type getOpaquePointerType(OpBuilder &builder);
+Type getOpaquePointerType(MLIRContext *ctx);
+Type getOpaquePointerType(Builder &builder);
 
 /// Generates an uninitialized temporary buffer of the given size and
 /// type, but returns it as type `memref<? x $tp>` (rather than as type
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Transforms/CodegenUtils.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Transforms/CodegenUtils.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Transforms/CodegenUtils.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Transforms/CodegenUtils.cpp
@@ -388,8 +388,12 @@
   return builder.create<func::CallOp>(loc, resultType, fn, operands);
 }
 
-Type mlir::sparse_tensor::getOpaquePointerType(OpBuilder &builder) {
-  return LLVM::LLVMPointerType::get(builder.getI8Type());
+Type mlir::sparse_tensor::getOpaquePointerType(MLIRContext *ctx) {
+  return LLVM::LLVMPointerType::get(IntegerType::get(ctx, 8));
+}
+
+Type mlir::sparse_tensor::getOpaquePointerType(Builder &builder) {
+  return getOpaquePointerType(builder.getContext());
 }
 
 Value mlir::sparse_tensor::genAlloca(OpBuilder &builder, Location loc,