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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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JanThe week the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities was one of the most fun weeks I’ve had in a while. Not only were the vulnerabilities mind-bendingly clever, that week had just 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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JulAttestation Signing — It’s NOT a Mystery
by PeterGV
All of a sudden, you can’t load your driver on 64-bit Windows. It works sometimes. But it won’t install or load when Secure Boot is enabled. You heard something about Read more
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MarGood News: Today Visual Studio (VS) 2017 was released to General Availability. You can download it here. Bad News: The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) doesn’t support this latest version of Read more
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FebIt’s a known fact these days that Microsoft is feeling the Git love. As stated by Microsoft and reported by Ars Technica, the Windows operating system is even moving from its long lived Read more
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SepThose of you who’ve read my Pontifications over the years know that the things that annoy me are truly countless in number. But most of the things that annoy me 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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