diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRefOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRefOps.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRefOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRefOps.cpp
@@ -207,8 +207,10 @@
 
   LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(T alloc,
                                 PatternRewriter &rewriter) const override {
-    if (llvm::any_of(alloc->getUsers(), [](Operation *op) {
-          return !isa<StoreOp, DeallocOp>(op);
+    if (llvm::any_of(alloc->getUsers(), [&](Operation *op) {
+        if (auto storeOp = dyn_cast<StoreOp>(op))
+          return storeOp.value() == alloc;
+        return !isa<DeallocOp>(op);
         }))
       return failure();
 
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/canonicalize.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/canonicalize.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/canonicalize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/MemRef/canonicalize.mlir
@@ -420,3 +420,13 @@
   %0 = memref.alloc(%c1)[%c1, %c1] : memref<?xi32, #map0>
   return %0 : memref<?xi32, #map0>
 }
+
+// -----
+// CHECK-LABEL: func @allocator
+// CHECK:   %[[alloc:.+]] = memref.alloc
+// CHECK:   memref.store %[[alloc:.+]], %arg0
+func @allocator(%arg0 : memref<memref<?xi32>>, %arg1 : index)  {
+  %0 = memref.alloc(%arg1) : memref<?xi32>
+  memref.store %0, %arg0[] : memref<memref<?xi32>>
+  return 
+}