diff --git a/flang/lib/Optimizer/CodeGen/CodeGen.cpp b/flang/lib/Optimizer/CodeGen/CodeGen.cpp
index 76f3cbd421cb9..0800ed4db8c31 100644
--- a/flang/lib/Optimizer/CodeGen/CodeGen.cpp
+++ b/flang/lib/Optimizer/CodeGen/CodeGen.cpp
@@ -329,6 +329,31 @@ struct AllocaOpConversion : public fir::FIROpConversion<fir::AllocaOp> {
 } // namespace
 
 namespace {
+
+static bool isInGlobalOp(mlir::ConversionPatternRewriter &rewriter) {
+  auto *thisBlock = rewriter.getInsertionBlock();
+  return thisBlock && mlir::isa<mlir::LLVM::GlobalOp>(thisBlock->getParentOp());
+}
+
+// Inside a fir.global, the input box was produced as an llvm.struct<>
+// because objects cannot be handled in memory inside a fir.global body that
+// must be constant foldable. However, the type translation are not
+// contextual, so the fir.box<T> type of the operation that produced the
+// fir.box was translated to an llvm.ptr<llvm.struct<>> and the MLIR pass
+// manager inserted a builtin.unrealized_conversion_cast that was inserted
+// and needs to be removed here.
+// This should be called by any pattern operating on operations that are
+// accepting fir.box inputs and are used in fir.global.
+static mlir::Value
+fixBoxInputInsideGlobalOp(mlir::ConversionPatternRewriter &rewriter,
+                          mlir::Value box) {
+  if (isInGlobalOp(rewriter))
+    if (auto unrealizedCast =
+            box.getDefiningOp<mlir::UnrealizedConversionCastOp>())
+      return unrealizedCast.getInputs()[0];
+  return box;
+}
+
 /// Lower `fir.box_addr` to the sequence of operations to extract the first
 /// element of the box.
 struct BoxAddrOpConversion : public fir::FIROpConversion<fir::BoxAddrOp> {
@@ -341,6 +366,7 @@ struct BoxAddrOpConversion : public fir::FIROpConversion<fir::BoxAddrOp> {
     auto loc = boxaddr.getLoc();
     if (auto argty =
             mlir::dyn_cast<fir::BaseBoxType>(boxaddr.getVal().getType())) {
+      a = fixBoxInputInsideGlobalOp(rewriter, a);
       TypePair boxTyPair = getBoxTypePair(argty);
       rewriter.replaceOp(boxaddr,
                          getBaseAddrFromBox(loc, boxTyPair, a, rewriter));
@@ -1737,12 +1763,6 @@ struct EmboxCommonConversion : public fir::FIROpConversion<OP> {
                        xbox.getSubcomponent().size());
   }
 
-  static bool isInGlobalOp(mlir::ConversionPatternRewriter &rewriter) {
-    auto *thisBlock = rewriter.getInsertionBlock();
-    return thisBlock &&
-           mlir::isa<mlir::LLVM::GlobalOp>(thisBlock->getParentOp());
-  }
-
   /// If the embox is not in a globalOp body, allocate storage for the box;
   /// store the value inside and return the generated alloca. Return the input
   /// value otherwise.
@@ -2076,21 +2096,10 @@ struct XReboxOpConversion : public EmboxCommonConversion<fir::cg::XReboxOp> {
                   mlir::ConversionPatternRewriter &rewriter) const override {
     mlir::Location loc = rebox.getLoc();
     mlir::Type idxTy = lowerTy().indexType();
-    mlir::Value loweredBox = adaptor.getOperands()[0];
+    mlir::Value loweredBox =
+        fixBoxInputInsideGlobalOp(rewriter, adaptor.getBox());
     mlir::ValueRange operands = adaptor.getOperands();
 
-    // Inside a fir.global, the input box was produced as an llvm.struct<>
-    // because objects cannot be handled in memory inside a fir.global body that
-    // must be constant foldable. However, the type translation are not
-    // contextual, so the fir.box<T> type of the operation that produced the
-    // fir.box was translated to an llvm.ptr<llvm.struct<>> and the MLIR pass
-    // manager inserted a builtin.unrealized_conversion_cast that was inserted
-    // and needs to be removed here.
-    if (isInGlobalOp(rewriter))
-      if (auto unrealizedCast =
-              loweredBox.getDefiningOp<mlir::UnrealizedConversionCastOp>())
-        loweredBox = unrealizedCast.getInputs()[0];
-
     TypePair inputBoxTyPair = getBoxTypePair(rebox.getBox().getType());
 
     // Create new descriptor and fill its non-shape related data.
diff --git a/flang/test/Fir/box_addr-codegen-in-global.fir b/flang/test/Fir/box_addr-codegen-in-global.fir
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2e0b41b8cc805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flang/test/Fir/box_addr-codegen-in-global.fir
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+// Test codegen of fir.box_addr inside fir.global
+// RUN: tco %s | FileCheck %s
+
+fir.global @x_addr constant : !fir.type<sometype{p:i64}> {
+  %c-1 = arith.constant -1 : index
+  %c5 = arith.constant 5 : index
+  %c3 = arith.constant 3 : index
+  %c-3 = arith.constant -3 : index
+  %c2 = arith.constant 2 : index
+  %c1 = arith.constant 1 : index
+  %0 = fir.undefined !fir.type<sometype{p:i64}>
+  %1 = fir.address_of(@_QFEx) : !fir.ref<!fir.array<2x3x5x!fir.type<_QFTt1{c:i32}>>>
+  %2 = fir.shape_shift %c1, %c2, %c-3, %c3, %c1, %c5 : (index, index, index, index, index, index) -> !fir.shapeshift<3>
+  %3 = fir.field_index c, !fir.type<_QFTt1{c:i32}>
+  %4 = fir.slice %c1, %c2, %c1, %c-3, %c-1, %c1, %c1, %c5, %c1 path %3 : (index, index, index, index, index, index, index, index, index, !fir.field) -> !fir.slice<3>
+  %5 = fir.embox %1(%2) [%4] : (!fir.ref<!fir.array<2x3x5x!fir.type<_QFTt1{c:i32}>>>, !fir.shapeshift<3>, !fir.slice<3>) -> !fir.box<!fir.ref<!fir.array<2x3x5xi32>>>
+  %6 = fir.box_addr %5 : (!fir.box<!fir.ref<!fir.array<2x3x5xi32>>>) -> !fir.ref<!fir.array<2x3x5xi32>>
+  %7 = fir.convert %6 : (!fir.ref<!fir.array<2x3x5xi32>>) -> i64
+  %8 = fir.insert_value %0, %7, ["p", !fir.type<sometype{p:i64}>] : (!fir.type<sometype{p:i64}>, i64) -> !fir.type<sometype{p:i64}>
+  fir.has_value %8 : !fir.type<sometype{p:i64}>
+}
+fir.global @_QFEx target : !fir.array<2x3x5x!fir.type<_QFTt1{c:i32}>>
+
+// CHECK: @x_addr = constant %sometype { i64 ptrtoint (ptr @_QFEx to i64) }