My thinkpad yoga 12 with intel core i7 is facing blue screen of death bsod frequently. It contains both universal windows driver and desktoponly driver samples. This chapter from windows internals, part 2, 6th edition lists the design goals of the windows io system which have influenced its implementation. Most smtbased tools have to bridge a gap between the complexities of. This information is also captured when driver verifier is used to enable special pool, however for the purposes of this article we will focus on using pool tracking. The special pool option allows the driver verifier to allocate memory for a driver in a special place thats monitored for memory damage, in other words access to the released memory. You can use the special pool feature of driver verifier and the special pool features of gflags at the same time. Windows driver verifier options with special pool for my disk filter driver, when shutdown windows,it become gray screen. How to use microsofts driver verifier to interpret unanalyzable crash dump files.
Using umdf verifier windows drivers microsoft docs. Having multiple pool tags in a large driver is especially helpful when using the special pool option of driver verifier because we reduce the risk that the memory allocations using a specific tag will deplete the special pool. Hi, im trying to run driver verifier for below options pool tracing security check ddi check stack based failure injection i have provisioned my test target and able to deploy the driver with driver. Guy smith is a writer specializing in device drivers and kernelmode topics. Usually, all that can be seen in a crash dump analysis is the symptom of the actual problem, such as a data area becoming damaged and causing problems in. Verifier allocates most of the drivers memory requests from a special pool. Driver verifier options windows drivers microsoft docs. After using driver verifier i received a couple of blue screens and the following special pool detected memory corruption afterward. An introduction to pool tags microsoft tech community. Your driver is charged with the allocation, but even if you free the context it still lives in a ndis cache, and driver verifier leak detection can incorrectly claim you have a leak. Special pool is not something that should be left on unless youre actively trying to find pool corruption problems.
The objective here is to get the system to crash because driver verifier is stressing the drivers out. Unable to get special pool info driver verification list. Developing drivers with the windows driver foundation. Hi guys, recently came across bad pool header special pool detected memory corruption bsod after running driver verifier last night i have. Another debugging lesson, with a simple bugcheck, which is very similar to a stop 0xd1 or stop 0xa. The seminar specifically focuses specifically on kmdf and umdf v2 software drivers, filter drivers, and drivers for usb devices, as well as drivers for programmed io type devices interfaced via either pci. For example, if youre kmdf driver calls wdfdevicecreate, its the framework that calls. Bad pool header bsod when i look into tivo subdirectory. The special pool option allows the driver verifier to allocate memory for. Penny orwick has been writing about windows driver development since 1997. In windows, a driver cannot access unloaded memory with high irql if the spin lock option is enabled. This detects illegal or inconsistent use of io routines. I have uploaded the dump files, msinfo output, and system snapshot as a zip file. This, for example, causes allocations made by the kernel to be subject to special pool.
If you are unable to log on to the system directly, try booting the system in safe mode. It is a custom build, and i made it around june of last year. This change catches the sort of pool corruption that could otherwise linger and cause a crashes thats nearly impossible to debug. Please reset driver verifier, if not yet done, and check the following settings on all nonmicrosoft drivers.
A small driver may have a single tag, whereas a more complex driver may use a different tag for each type of allocation. Enable select individual settings from a full list. Reboot the system and wait for it to crash to the blue screen. In windows vista and later versions of windows, activating io verification also activates driver hang verification.
Use driver verifier when bug check blue screen error shows that memory corruption has occurred. If you only enable driver verifier for your driver, the only pool validation that. Using driver verifier to identify issues with windows drivers for advanced users. If, after enabling verifier, you crash with a particular driver as the culprit, replace. Umdf driver packages that are built by using windows driver kit for windows 8 can automatically redistribute and install version 1.
Bsods galore, mostly special pool detected windows 7. Run the driver verifier utility which is builtin to your operating system. Continue to use your system normally, and if you know what causes the crash, do that repeatedly. Windows also supports a special kind of highperformance io that is called. Next, youll want to enable driver verifier and special pool tagging. Driver verifier allocates the drivers irps from a special pool, and monitors the drivers io handling. This allows us to put the os into a special mode where the drivers arent. Static analysis tools include prefast for drivers, which can be used to test both kmdf and umdf drivers, and static driver verifier sdv, which can be used to test kmdf drivers. This functionality was first introduced in windows vista and windows server 2008. The internal pool links must be walked to figure out a possible cause of the problem, and then special pool applied to the suspect tags or the driver verifier to a suspect driver. Allocates the drivers irps from a special pool and monitors the drivers io handling to detect illegal or inconsistent use of io routines.
Use the driver flag to specify drivers you want to verify, this is the place to list drivers you suspect as the cause of the problem. To enable special pool using driver verifier use the following command line, or choose the option from the verifier gui. Dynamic verification tools, which put an installed driver through its paces in hopes of activating a bug and causing the driver. How to use microsofts driver verifier to interpret. Understanding the windows io system microsoft press store. Driver verifier, to put it simply, will be very strict with drivers as they load.
But when i open it,the window cant shutdown,it become gray screen. By default driver verifier does not verify allocations made by the kernel. To detect memory corruption, driver verifier can allocate driver memory from a special pool and monitor that pool for incorrect access. If one misbehaves it will immediately crash with a much more informative explanation about what failed. To request special pool for a pool tag or size range, use gflags, a tool included in debugging tools for windows. Driver verifier developing drivers with the windows. I also went through the driver verifier manager and ticked everything that wasnt microsoft and also the four drivers you suggested. Umdf driver settings file not found on win 10 os 10108 build version wdk 10 hi, im trying to run driver verifier for below options. The first set of potentially memory corrupting errors that this option will catch is buffer overruns accessing memory after a valid address range. She has worked closely with the windows driver foundation team since the early stages of development and has developed technical papers for the driver development community. Bsod windows 10 1703 when creating system image solved. This issue has started after updating my laptop os from windows 8. Getting started with driver testing developing drivers. Using driver verifier to identify issues with windows.
Special pool force irql checking pool tracking deadlock detection security checks new as of windows 7 miscellaneous checks power framework delay fuzzing new as of windows 8 ddi compliance checking ne. It facilitates the creation of drivers for certain classes of devices. If i am developing a wdf driver of file system mini filter driver or a ndis filter drivers. At first, i was getting page fault in non paged area, since update drivers, trying memtest, and driver verifier, it is beginning to frequently blue screen with special pool detected. It is hard to explain the question,i write two driver,a disk filter driver and volume filter driver,when i dont open verfier. Umdf driver settings file not found on win 10 os 10108. Special pool by enabling the special pool option, you enable two safeguards for one of the most insidious types of driver error. For example, the following command line activates driver verifier with pool. Two file system mini filter driver registered and started but only first driver works fine and second driver doesnt work. However, typically only file system drivers have any use for fast io routines. Both the wdm and wdf simplify the process of making driver code. If you dont want a nasty surprise when your customers upgrade to xp sp2, be sure youre testing your driver thoroughly with driver verifier, with the special pool option enabled, to detect any pool overrun errors. Have you enabled special pool using driver verifier and left it enabled.
I started receiving irql not less or equal error so i followed instructions on using driver verifier. Understanding pool corruption part 2 special pool for buffer overruns. So, when the special pool has run out, drivers that are being verified are going to have their pool allocations sent to the normal pool. Usermode driver framework umdf is a device driver development platform first introduced with microsofts windows vista operating system, and is also available for windows xp. Enable windows driver verifier for your driver during all testing. Driver verifier is the tool to help do that, as well as improve the performance. This repo contains driver samples prepared for use with microsoft visual studio and the windows driver kit wdk. It covers the components that make up the io system, including the io manager, plug and play pnp manager, and power manager, and also examines the structure and components of the io system and the various types of device drivers. The latest news, announced at the build conference, is umdf v2. The nonpaged pool buffer is pointed to by the irps associatedirp. Although, im sure this bugcheck only occurs with the use of driver verifier, but i may be wrong about this. Understanding pool corruption part 2 special pool for. Complete the following steps, to enable special pool tagging for a driver. During driver package installation, the package checks the computer to determine what version of umdf is currently installed, and then the package updates the files to 1.