re: [ntfsd] Exhausting NonPagedPool

Way back, last year, the following was posted. This may be
contributing to your observed leak.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eliyas Yakub [mailto:xxxxx@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 11:15 AM
To: ‘Steve Hayward’
Cc: ‘xxxxx@atria.com’
Subject: RE: [ntdev] IoCreateDevice/IoDeleteDevice memory leak

Yes it’s a bug. It will be fixed in the post Win2K release. This memory leak
will happen only if you specify one of the following as your device type.

FILE_DEVICE_DISK
FILE_DEVICE_TAPE
FILE_DEVICE_CD_ROM
FILE_DEVICE_VIRTUAL_DISK

These values are specified only by storage devices, and at least on NT4.0,
once created these device objects are not deleted at all. Anyway thanks for
your feedback.

Eliyas

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hayward [mailto:xxxxx@avantis.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 2:51 AM
To: Eliyas Yakub
Subject: RE: [ntdev] IoCreateDevice/IoDeleteDevice memory leak

Eliyas

Thanks for your response I have found now the leak.
It seems that the IoDeleteDevice does not free the the VPB block. The
following code plugs the leak.

// extract the pointer to the Vpb
pVpb = pNewDeviceObject->Vpb;

// first free the VPB if it exits
if(pVpb != NULL)
{
// set value in the device object to NULL
pNewDeviceObject->Vpb = NULL;

// now free the buffer
ExFreePool(pVpb);
}

// now delete the device
IoDeleteDevice(pNewDeviceObject);

This is also backed up by the fact that creating devices as
FILE_DEVICE_UNKNOWN does not have the same leak problem.

Steve


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