diff --git a/python/tvm/te/operation.py b/python/tvm/te/operation.py
index 8da78a599c28..5279c46aebc2 100644
--- a/python/tvm/te/operation.py
+++ b/python/tvm/te/operation.py
@@ -326,7 +326,11 @@ def extern(
         if not isinstance(t, _tensor.Tensor):
             raise ValueError("expect inputs to be tensor")
         if in_buffers is None:
-            input_placeholders.append(tvm.tir.decl_buffer(t.shape, t.dtype, t.op.name))
+            input_placeholders.append(
+                tvm.tir.decl_buffer(
+                    t.shape, t.dtype, t.op.name, elem_offset=tvm.tir.Var("elem_offset", "int32")
+                )
+            )
         types.add(t.dtype)
 
     if dtype is None:
@@ -339,7 +343,9 @@ def extern(
 
     if out_buffers is None:
         for shp, dt in zip(shape, dtype):
-            output_placeholders.append(tvm.tir.decl_buffer(shp, dt, name))
+            output_placeholders.append(
+                tvm.tir.decl_buffer(shp, dt, name, elem_offset=tvm.tir.Var("elem_offset", "int32"))
+            )
     body = fcompute(input_placeholders, output_placeholders)
     if isinstance(body, tvm.tir.PrimExpr):
         body = tvm.tir.Evaluate(body)
diff --git a/tests/python/relay/test_op_level1.py b/tests/python/relay/test_op_level1.py
index 3436bdd9f28d..4234c18c110f 100644
--- a/tests/python/relay/test_op_level1.py
+++ b/tests/python/relay/test_op_level1.py
@@ -820,5 +820,31 @@ def test_dense_rocm_sdot4():
     np.testing.assert_equal(out, ref)
 
 
+def test_extern_concat_injective_fuse():
+    # This is a subgraph from MobileBERT, which crashes compilation if buffers created in te.extern(...)
+    # do not have their elem_offset explicitly set as a variable.
+
+    # fmt: off
+    mod = tvm.parser.fromtext(
+        """
+       #[version = "0.0.5"]
+       def @main(%p0844: Tensor[(1, 384), int64], %p1652: Tensor[(2016, 128), float16]) {
+        %1331 = cast(%p0844, dtype="int32");
+        %1332 = take(%p1652, %1331, axis=0);
+        %1333 = strided_slice(%1332, begin=[0, 1, 0], end=[1, 384, 128], strides=[1, 1, 1], axes=None);
+        %1334 = strided_slice(%1332, begin=[0, 0, 0], end=[1, -1, 128], strides=[1, 1, 1], axes=None);
+        %1335 = nn.pad(%1333, 0, pad_width=[[0, 0], [0, 1], [0, 0]]);
+        %1336 = nn.pad(%1334, 0, pad_width=[[0, 0], [1, 0], [0, 0]]);
+        %1337 = (%1335, %1332, %1336);
+        %1338 = concatenate(%1337, axis=2);
+        reshape(%1338, newshape=[-1, 384])
+      }
+    """
+    )
+    # fmt: on
+
+    relay.build(mod, params={}, target="llvm")
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     pytest.main([__file__])
diff --git a/tests/python/unittest/test_te_create_primfunc.py b/tests/python/unittest/test_te_create_primfunc.py
index d10fd2d23d47..4c216cdbc53a 100644
--- a/tests/python/unittest/test_te_create_primfunc.py
+++ b/tests/python/unittest/test_te_create_primfunc.py
@@ -216,9 +216,12 @@ def te_extern():
 @T.prim_func
 def tir_extern(a: T.handle, b: T.handle, c: T.handle) -> None:
     T.func_attr({"global_symbol": "main", "tir.noalias": True})
-    A = T.match_buffer(a, (128, 128))
-    B = T.match_buffer(b, (128, 128))
-    C = T.match_buffer(c, (128, 128))
+    off1 = te.var("elem_offset")
+    off2 = te.var("elem_offset_1")
+    off3 = te.var("elem_offset_2")
+    A = T.match_buffer(a, (128, 128), elem_offset=off1)
+    B = T.match_buffer(b, (128, 128), elem_offset=off2)
+    C = T.match_buffer(c, (128, 128), elem_offset=off3)
     # body
     with T.block("C"):
         T.reads([A[0:128, 0:128], B[0:128, 0:128]])
@@ -232,7 +235,7 @@ def tir_extern(a: T.handle, b: T.handle, c: T.handle) -> None:
                     0,
                     2,
                     0.0,
-                    0,
+                    off1,
                     dtype="handle",
                 ),
                 T.tvm_stack_make_array(
@@ -241,7 +244,7 @@ def tir_extern(a: T.handle, b: T.handle, c: T.handle) -> None:
                     0,
                     2,
                     0.0,
-                    0,
+                    off2,
                     dtype="handle",
                 ),
                 T.tvm_stack_make_array(
@@ -250,7 +253,7 @@ def tir_extern(a: T.handle, b: T.handle, c: T.handle) -> None:
                     0,
                     2,
                     0.0,
-                    0,
+                    off3,
                     dtype="handle",
                 ),
                 0,