diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/CodegenStrategy.h b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/CodegenStrategy.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/CodegenStrategy.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Linalg/Transforms/CodegenStrategy.h
@@ -152,12 +152,16 @@
 
 /// Options to control the application of late transformations.
 struct LateCodegenStrategyOptions {
+  /// Hoisting transformations are always deemed beneficial and must disabled
+  /// explicitly.
   bool enableLICM = true;
   bool enableHoistRedundantVectorTransfers = true;
   bool enableHoistRedundantVectorTransfersOnTensor = true;
-  bool enableVectorTransferPartialRewrite = true;
-  bool enableVectorContractLowering = true;
-  bool enableVectorToSCFConversion = true;
+  /// Vector lowering operations may result in surprising behavior when
+  /// composing multiple codegen strategies and must be enabled explicitly.
+  bool enableVectorTransferPartialRewrite = false;
+  bool enableVectorContractLowering = false;
+  bool enableVectorToSCFConversion = false;
 };
 
 /// Codegen strategy controls how a Linalg op is progressively lowered.
diff --git a/mlir/test/lib/Dialect/Linalg/TestLinalgCodegenStrategy.cpp b/mlir/test/lib/Dialect/Linalg/TestLinalgCodegenStrategy.cpp
--- a/mlir/test/lib/Dialect/Linalg/TestLinalgCodegenStrategy.cpp
+++ b/mlir/test/lib/Dialect/Linalg/TestLinalgCodegenStrategy.cpp
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@
               .setAlignment(16)
               .setUseFullTileBuffersByDefault(registerPromoteFullTile))
       .vectorizeIf(vectorize, anchorOpName)
+      .setEnableVectorTransferPartialRewrite(true)
+      .setEnableVectorContractLowering(true)
+      .setEnableVectorToSCFConversion(true)
       .setVectorTransformsOptions(
           vector::VectorTransformsOptions()
               .setVectorTransformsOptions(vectorContractLowering)
@@ -177,6 +180,9 @@
               .setAlignment(16)
               .setUseFullTileBuffersByDefault(registerPromoteFullTile))
       .template vectorizeIf<OpType>(vectorize)
+      .setEnableVectorTransferPartialRewrite(true)
+      .setEnableVectorContractLowering(true)
+      .setEnableVectorToSCFConversion(true)
       .setVectorTransformsOptions(
           vector::VectorTransformsOptions()
               .setVectorTransformsOptions(vectorContractLowering)