As a file system filter developer, one of the great pains in life is when a file system operation fails deep in the bowels of the file system. For example, Read more
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JunI was looking at a few different crashes today that were all eerily similar. In doing so, I realized that I hadn’t asked if these were all different systems or Read more
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JunWell, this one took us by surprise… MmBuildMdlForNonPagedPool is the standard shortcut function drivers use to build MDLs describing non-pageable memory. Despite the name, the buffer described by the MDL Read more
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FebDiagnosed yet another crash today that is likely due to the usage of IoBuildDeviceIoControlRequest. Long ago I was burned by this API and vowed to never use it again, but Read more
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JulI found myself in a situation this week where I really wanted to call the API SeTokenIsAdmin. I vaguely remembered some issues around this API, and Googling quickly brought up Read more
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MayIn case you’ve missed it, there are tons of changes going on under the covers in WinDbg. There is a fundamental paradigm shift going on in terms of how WinDbg Read more
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AprTL;DR: Don’t waste your time like we did – 1394 boot debugging no longer works on the latest builds on Windows 10. As you might already be aware, native 1394 kernel Read more
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FebYet another interesting case lands on our doorstep thanks to NTDEV (original post here). I firmly believe that you have zero chance in diagnosing a non-trivial crash if you don’t Read more
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Aug[Last updated 31 Aug 2016, 16:11 Eastern time] Update: As of 31 August 2016, we have verified that RS1 symbols are now present and indexed on the MSFT Symbol Server. Yay! Read more
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FebTurning DbgPrint Statements into WPP Tracing
by PeterGV
As surprising as you may find this, I’m going to write a couple of blog posts about WPP Tracing. Some Background for Context Those of you who’ve followed us for Read more
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