Well, THIS one was a surprise…After triggering a memory leak in a driver, the system surprisingly crashed due to a call to FsRtlIsNameInExpression: # ChildEBP RetAddr 00 b7226d0c 816167b8 nt!RtlpBreakWithStatusInstruction Read more
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Well, THIS one was a surprise…After triggering a memory leak in a driver, the system surprisingly crashed due to a call to FsRtlIsNameInExpression: # ChildEBP RetAddr 00 b7226d0c 816167b8 nt!RtlpBreakWithStatusInstruction Read more
A big complaint I’ve always had about the HLKs is the overhead of getting a system provisioned as the HLK controller. This is made even worse now by the blistering Read more
Well, 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
The 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
Yet another release of Windows 10 means yet another release of the WDK: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit The big news with this release is that driver development is finally integrated with Visual Studio Read more
In 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
TL;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
I can hear you now, scoffing as you read the latest issue of The NT Insider: “You OSR people actually think running the HLK tests is a Best Practice? Seriously?” I Read more
Good 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
[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
FESF for Linux is Now Shipping!
OSR's Framework for building transparent per-file encryption solutions now supports Linux!
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