diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Vectorization.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Vectorization.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Vectorization.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/Vectorization.cpp
@@ -751,6 +751,13 @@
         padOp.getLoc(), vecType, padOp.source(), readIndices, padValue,
         readInBounds);
 
+    // If `dest` is a FillOp and the TransferWriteOp would overwrite the entire
+    // tensor, write directly to the FillOp's operand.
+    if (llvm::equal(vecShape, resultType.getShape())
+        && llvm::all_of(writeInBounds, [](bool b) { return b; }))
+      if (auto fill = dest.getDefiningOp<FillOp>())
+        dest = fill.output();
+
     // Generate TransferWriteOp.
     auto writeIndices = ofrToIndexValues(
         rewriter, padOp.getLoc(), padOp.getMixedLowPad());