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+/// Use kmemdup_user rather than duplicating its implementation
+/// This is a little bit restricted to reduce false positives
+///
+// Confidence: High
+// Copyright: (C) 2010 Nicolas Palix, DIKU.  GPLv2.
+// Copyright: (C) 2010 Julia Lawall, DIKU.  GPLv2.
+// Copyright: (C) 2010 Gilles Muller, INRIA/LiP6.  GPLv2.
+// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
+// Comments:
+// Options: -no_includes -include_headers
+
+virtual patch
+
+@@
+expression from,to,size,flag;
+position p;
+identifier l1,l2;
+@@
+
+-  to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag);
++  to = memdup_user(from,size);
+   if (
+-      to==NULL
++      IS_ERR(to)
+                 || ...) {
+   <+... when != goto l1;
+-  -ENOMEM
++  PTR_ERR(to)
+   ...+>
+   }
+-  if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0) {
+-    <+... when != goto l2;
+-    -EFAULT
+-    ...+>
+-  }