diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/mkl/SpectralOps.cpp b/aten/src/ATen/native/mkl/SpectralOps.cpp
index 8deefaade89c..2ac109e6be08 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/mkl/SpectralOps.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/mkl/SpectralOps.cpp
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ static Tensor& _exec_fft(Tensor& out, const Tensor& self, IntArrayRef out_sizes,
   const auto value_type = c10::toRealValueType(input.scalar_type());
   out.resize_(batched_out_sizes, MemoryFormat::Contiguous);
 
+  input = input.contiguous();
   auto descriptor = _plan_mkl_fft(
       input.strides(), out.strides(), signal_size, input.is_complex(),
       out.is_complex(), normalization, forward, value_type);