diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/TransformOps/LinalgTransformOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/TransformOps/LinalgTransformOps.cpp
index 140bdd1f2db36..be875297fc93c 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/TransformOps/LinalgTransformOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/TransformOps/LinalgTransformOps.cpp
@@ -2092,6 +2092,7 @@ DiagnosedSilenceableFailure transform::ConvertToLoopsOp::applyToOne(
       scf::lowerToLoopsUsingSCFForOp(rewriter, target);
   if (failed(loops))
     return emitDefaultDefiniteFailure(target);
+  rewriter.eraseOp(target);
   return DiagnosedSilenceableFailure::success();
 }
 
diff --git a/mlir/test/Interfaces/TilingInterface/lower-to-loops-using-interface.mlir b/mlir/test/Interfaces/TilingInterface/lower-to-loops-using-interface.mlir
index 7969de0d456bb..1b2c553b25ded 100644
--- a/mlir/test/Interfaces/TilingInterface/lower-to-loops-using-interface.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Interfaces/TilingInterface/lower-to-loops-using-interface.mlir
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ module attributes {transform.with_named_sequence} {
 //       CHECK:         %[[MULF:.+]] = arith.mulf %[[LHS]], %[[RHS]]
 //       CHECK:         %[[ADDF:.+]] = arith.addf %[[OUT]], %[[MULF]]
 //       CHECK:         memref.store %[[ADDF]], %[[ARG2]][%[[IV0]], %[[IV1]]]
+//   CHECK-NOT:   linalg.matmul ins(%arg0, %arg1 : memref<?x?xf32>, memref<?x?xf32>)
 
 // -----