diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/StandardOps/Ops.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/StandardOps/Ops.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/StandardOps/Ops.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/StandardOps/Ops.cpp
@@ -2527,11 +2527,31 @@
   }
 };
 
+struct ViewOpMemrefCastFolder : public OpRewritePattern<ViewOp> {
+  using OpRewritePattern<ViewOp>::OpRewritePattern;
+
+  PatternMatchResult matchAndRewrite(ViewOp viewOp,
+                                     PatternRewriter &rewriter) const override {
+    Value memrefOperand = viewOp.getOperand(0);
+    MemRefCastOp memrefCastOp =
+        dyn_cast_or_null<MemRefCastOp>(memrefOperand.getDefiningOp());
+    if (!memrefCastOp)
+      return matchFailure();
+    Value allocOperand = memrefCastOp.getOperand();
+    AllocOp allocOp = dyn_cast_or_null<AllocOp>(allocOperand.getDefiningOp());
+    if (!allocOp)
+      return matchFailure();
+    rewriter.replaceOpWithNewOp<ViewOp>(memrefOperand, viewOp, viewOp.getType(),
+                                        allocOperand, viewOp.operands());
+    return matchSuccess();
+  }
+};
+
 } // end anonymous namespace
 
 void ViewOp::getCanonicalizationPatterns(OwningRewritePatternList &results,
                                          MLIRContext *context) {
-  results.insert<ViewOpShapeFolder>(context);
+  results.insert<ViewOpShapeFolder, ViewOpMemrefCastFolder>(context);
 }
 
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
diff --git a/mlir/test/Transforms/canonicalize.mlir b/mlir/test/Transforms/canonicalize.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Transforms/canonicalize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Transforms/canonicalize.mlir
@@ -695,6 +695,7 @@
 
 // CHECK-LABEL: func @view
 func @view(%arg0 : index) {
+  // CHECK: %[[ALLOC_MEM:.*]] = alloc() : memref<2048xi8>
   %0 = alloc() : memref<2048xi8>
   %c0 = constant 0 : index
   %c7 = constant 7 : index
@@ -730,11 +731,15 @@
 
   // Test: preserve an existing static dim size while folding a dynamic
   // dimension and offset.
-  // CHECK: std.view %0[][] : memref<2048xi8> to memref<7x4xf32, #[[VIEW_MAP4]]>
-  %5 = view %0[%c15][%c7]
-    : memref<2048xi8> to memref<?x4xf32, #TEST_VIEW_MAP2>
+  // CHECK: std.view %[[ALLOC_MEM]][][] : memref<2048xi8> to memref<7x4xf32, #[[VIEW_MAP4]]>
+  %5 = view %0[%c15][%c7] : memref<2048xi8> to memref<?x4xf32, #TEST_VIEW_MAP2>
   load %5[%c0, %c0] : memref<?x4xf32, #TEST_VIEW_MAP2>
 
+  // Test: folding static alloc and memref_cast into a view.
+  // CHECK: std.view %0[][%c15, %c7] : memref<2048xi8> to memref<?x?xf32>
+  %6 = memref_cast %0 : memref<2048xi8> to memref<?xi8>
+  %7 = view %6[%c15][%c7] : memref<?xi8> to memref<?x?xf32>
+  load %7[%c0, %c0] : memref<?x?xf32>
   return
 }