diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/CodegenStrategy.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/CodegenStrategy.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/CodegenStrategy.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/CodegenStrategy.cpp
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
         .add<ContractionOpToOuterProductOpLowering,
              ContractionOpToMatmulOpLowering, ContractionOpLowering>(
             vectorTransformsOptions, context);
+    vector::populateVectorTransferLoweringPatterns(
+        vectorContractLoweringPatterns);
     (void)applyPatternsAndFoldGreedily(
         func, std::move(vectorContractLoweringPatterns));
   }