diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/IR/TensorOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/IR/TensorOps.cpp
index 0ee79a6ea268..dd92ef2e1cd7 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/IR/TensorOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Tensor/IR/TensorOps.cpp
@@ -2407,7 +2407,6 @@ void PadOp::build(OpBuilder &b, OperationState &result, Type resultType,
                   Value source, ArrayRef<OpFoldResult> low,
                   ArrayRef<OpFoldResult> high, bool nofold,
                   ArrayRef<NamedAttribute> attrs) {
-  assert(resultType.isa<RankedTensorType>());
   auto sourceType = source.getType().cast<RankedTensorType>();
   SmallVector<Value, 4> dynamicLow, dynamicHigh;
   SmallVector<int64_t, 4> staticLow, staticHigh;