diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/VectorOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/VectorOps.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/VectorOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/VectorOps.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 #include "mlir/Dialect/Vector/VectorOps.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/StandardOps/IR/Ops.h"
+#include "mlir/Dialect/Tensor/IR/Tensor.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/Utils/StructuredOpsUtils.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/Vector/VectorUtils.h"
 #include "mlir/IR/AffineExpr.h"
@@ -2400,6 +2401,18 @@
   return success(folded);
 }
 
+static LogicalResult foldTensorCast(Operation *op) {
+  bool folded = false;
+  for (OpOperand &operand : op->getOpOperands()) {
+    auto castOp = operand.get().getDefiningOp<tensor::CastOp>();
+    if (castOp && tensor::canFoldIntoConsumerOp(castOp)) {
+      operand.set(castOp.getOperand());
+      folded = true;
+    }
+  }
+  return success(folded);
+}
+
 template <typename TransferOp>
 static bool isInBounds(TransferOp op, int64_t resultIdx, int64_t indicesIdx) {
   // TODO: support more aggressive createOrFold on:
@@ -2452,6 +2465,8 @@
     return getResult();
   if (succeeded(foldMemRefCast(*this)))
     return getResult();
+  if (succeeded(foldTensorCast(*this)))
+    return getResult();
   return OpFoldResult();
 }
 
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
@@ -267,6 +267,20 @@
 
 // -----
 
+// CHECK-LABEL: cast_transfers
+func @cast_transfers(%A: tensor<4x8xf32>) -> (vector<4x8xf32>) {
+  %c0 = constant 0 : index
+  %f0 = constant 0.0 : f32
+  %0 = tensor.cast %A : tensor<4x8xf32> to tensor<?x?xf32>
+
+  // CHECK: vector.transfer_read %{{.*}} {masked = [false, false]} : tensor<4x8xf32>, vector<4x8xf32>
+  %1 = vector.transfer_read %0[%c0, %c0], %f0 : tensor<?x?xf32>, vector<4x8xf32>
+
+  return %1 : vector<4x8xf32>
+}
+
+// -----
+
 // CHECK-LABEL: func @insert_extract_transpose_2d(
 //  CHECK-SAME: %[[V:[a-zA-Z0-9]*]]: vector<2x3xf32>,
 //  CHECK-SAME: %[[F0:[a-zA-Z0-9]*]]: f32,