Re: problem to understand behavior of I/O manager

"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Do these mean that, if Win32 has already reported ERROR_PENDING
to the application, the kernel cannot later run out of memory
when trying to report the completion of the I/O?

The kernel itself will not, but the particular driver can.

I don't quite see what you mean.
Are you implying that a driver might for example attempt to
allocate a work item from which it would call IoCompleteRequest,
and if IoAllocateWorkItem fails, the driver would just forget
about the IRP?
To me, that would seem a bug in the driver.
.

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