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+///
+/// Use zeroing allocator rather than allocator followed by memset with 0
+///
+/// This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate
+/// Note in particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the
+/// matched code has to be contiguous
+///
+// Confidence: High
+// Copyright: (C) 2009-2010 Julia Lawall, Nicolas Palix, DIKU. GPLv2.
+// Copyright: (C) 2009-2010 Gilles Muller, INRIA/LiP6. GPLv2.
+// Copyright: (C) 2017 Himanshu Jha GPLv2.
+// Copyright: (C) 2019 Quentin Young. GPLv2.
+// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/rules/kzalloc.html
+// Options: --no-includes --include-headers
+//
+// Keywords: XMALLOC, XCALLOC
+// Version min: < 2.6.12 kmalloc
+// Version min: 2.6.14 kzalloc
+//
+
+virtual context
+virtual patch
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+// For context mode
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+
+@depends on context@
+type T, T2;
+expression x;
+expression E1;
+expression t;
+@@
+
+* x = (T)XMALLOC(t, E1);
+* memset((T2)x,0,E1);
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+// For patch mode
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+
+@depends on patch@
+type T, T2;
+expression x;
+expression E1;
+expression t;
+@@
+
+- x = (T)XMALLOC(t, E1);
++ x = (T)XCALLOC(t, E1);
+- memset((T2)x,0,E1);
+