diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDecl.cpp b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDecl.cpp
index f33cf59f48874..4b6f2c5ffebd3 100644
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDecl.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDecl.cpp
@@ -266,8 +266,7 @@ llvm::Constant *CodeGenModule::getOrCreateStaticVarDecl(
   // OpenCL/SYCL variables in local address space and CUDA shared
   // variables cannot have an initializer.
   llvm::Constant *Init = nullptr;
-  if (Ty.getAddressSpace() == LangAS::opencl_local ||
-      Ty.getAddressSpace() == LangAS::sycl_local ||
+  if (AS == LangAS::opencl_local || AS == LangAS::sycl_local ||
       D.hasAttr<CUDASharedAttr>() || D.hasAttr<LoaderUninitializedAttr>())
     Init = llvm::UndefValue::get(LTy);
   else
diff --git a/clang/test/CodeGenSYCL/wg_init.cpp b/clang/test/CodeGenSYCL/wg_init.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b61c2bb970762
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang/test/CodeGenSYCL/wg_init.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// RUN: %clang_cc1 -fsycl-is-device -triple spir64-unknown-unknown -disable-llvm-passes -emit-llvm %s -o - | FileCheck %s
+
+// This test checks that a local variable initialized within a
+// parallel_for_work_group scope is initialized as an UndefValue in addrspace(3)
+// in LLVM IR.
+
+#include "Inputs/sycl.hpp"
+
+using namespace sycl;
+
+int main() {
+  queue q;
+  q.submit([&](handler &h) {
+    h.parallel_for_work_group<class kernel>(
+        range<1>{1}, range<1>{1}, [=](group<1> G) {
+          int WG_VAR = 10;
+        });
+  });
+  return 0;
+}
+
+// CHECK: @{{.*}}WG_VAR = internal addrspace(3) global {{.*}} undef, {{.*}}