We can't store garbage in the unused bits. It possible that something like zextload from i1/i2/i4 is created to read the memory. Those zextloads would be legalized assuming the extra bits are 0.
I'm not sure that the code in lowerStore is executed for the v1i1/v2i1/v4i1 case. It looks like the DAG combine in combineStore may have converted them to v8i1 first. And I think we're missing some cases to avoid going to the stack in the first place. But I don't have time to investigate those things at the moment so I wanted to focus on the correctness issue.
Should fix PR48147.
Any idea why we pad with a INSERT_SUBVECTOR here but use a CONCAT_VECTORS in the other case?