I have read the article about ‘shadow device’ ,but I can’t understand these paragraph,Can anyone would explain it clearly or give some sample code ?
what I can understand is follows:
Now, an IRP_MJ_CREATE request arrives in your filter, specifying MyFilterDeviceObject. To open the file without experiencing reentrancy problems, you call IoCreateFile (or ZwCreateFile). Since you must pass the name of the file being opened, you construct that by using both the name you gave MyFilterShadowDeviceObject and the name that is in the FileObject of the I/O stack Location (IoGetCurrentIrpStackLocation(Irp)->FileObject).
Since you are passing a name in that points to your second device object, the I/O Manager will build the IRP_MJ_CREATE and pass the resulting I/O request packet to your driver, but specifying MyFilterShadowDeviceObject.
In your IRP_MJ_CREATE dispatch handler you must detect that this is a “shadow” device object, rather than a typical filter device object. In this case, you should send the IRP_MJ_CREATE operation down to the device being filtered by MyFilterDeviceObject. Indeed, since you should not need to do any further processing, you can use IoSkipCurrentIrpStackLocation (rather than IoCopyCurrentIrpStackLocationToNext).