diff --git a/src/runtime/contrib/dnnl/dnnl_json_runtime.cc b/src/runtime/contrib/dnnl/dnnl_json_runtime.cc
index e52009d7add7..66378d74f5d7 100644
--- a/src/runtime/contrib/dnnl/dnnl_json_runtime.cc
+++ b/src/runtime/contrib/dnnl/dnnl_json_runtime.cc
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class DNNLJSONRuntime : public JSONRuntimeBase {
 
     auto data_entry = node.GetInputs()[0];
     dnnl::memory::dims shape = nodes_[data_entry.id_].GetOpShape()[data_entry.index_];
-    auto data_md = dnnl::memory::desc{{shape}, dt::f32, tag::abcd};
+    dnnl::memory::desc data_md = GenDNNLMemDescByShape(shape, dt::f32);
 
     auto relu_desc = dnnl::eltwise_forward::desc(dnnl::prop_kind::forward_inference,
                                                  dnnl::algorithm::eltwise_relu, data_md, 0);
@@ -349,9 +349,8 @@ class DNNLJSONRuntime : public JSONRuntimeBase {
     net_.push_back(relu);
 
     auto data_memory = BindDNNLMemory(data_entry, data_md);
-    auto out_md = dnnl::memory::desc(shape, dt::f32, tag::abcd);
     JSONGraphNodeEntry out_entry(nid, 0);
-    auto out_memory = BindDNNLMemory(out_entry, out_md);
+    auto out_memory = BindDNNLMemory(out_entry, data_md);
 
     net_args_.push_back({{DNNL_ARG_SRC, data_memory}, {DNNL_ARG_DST, out_memory}});
   }
diff --git a/tests/python/relay/test_json_runtime.py b/tests/python/relay/test_json_runtime.py
index 8107dc231adb..721271ac70f1 100644
--- a/tests/python/relay/test_json_runtime.py
+++ b/tests/python/relay/test_json_runtime.py
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ def test_relu():
     dtype = "float32"
     shape = (1, 32, 14, 14)
 
-    def gen_relu():
+    def gen_relu(shape):
         data0 = relay.var("data0", shape=shape, dtype=dtype)
         out = relay.nn.relu(data0)
 
@@ -250,18 +250,22 @@ def gen_relu():
 
         return mod, ref_mod
 
-    mod, ref_mod = gen_relu()
+    def check(shape):
+        mod, ref_mod = gen_relu(shape)
+
+        data0 = np.random.uniform(-1, 1, shape).astype(dtype)
+        check_result(
+            mod,
+            ref_mod,
+            {
+                "data0": data0,
+            },
+            shape,
+            tol=1e-5,
+        )
 
-    data0 = np.random.uniform(-1, 1, shape).astype(dtype)
-    check_result(
-        mod,
-        ref_mod,
-        {
-            "data0": data0,
-        },
-        (1, 32, 14, 14),
-        tol=1e-5,
-    )
+    check(shape=(1, 32, 14, 14))
+    check(shape=(1, 32))
 
 
 def test_dense():