Re: Why is remote system information calling ioctl for my driver?

Er... I misspoke. Changing the key name doesn't keep the System Information
from probing w/ ioctls. I can't seem to duplicate the original problem, so I
don't think the ioctl probing was causing the System Information util to fail
as I first described. How does it decide that my driver is a serial port
driver and needs to be probed like this? This is a specialized driver that
has been ported from a another system, so there's no MDD/PDD concepts in it
at all.

Thanks,
Marco

"Marco" wrote:

Thanks for the excellent answer, Luca. I also found that it's keying off of
the SerialPortIndex registry key to decide if the driver should be probed
this way. I changed that key name to something else, and System Information
is now hands off of my driver.

Marco

"Luca Calligaris" wrote:

The System Information tool calls those IOCTL's to gain information about
the serial device, as it is designed to do.

IOCTL's are defined by a macro (look at windev.h):

#define CTL_CODE(DeviceType, Function, Method, Access) (
((DeviceType) << 16) | ((Access) << 14) | ((Function) << 2) | (Method))

Your codes have DeviceType==0x1B (FILE_DEVICE_SERIAL_PORT),
Access==0 (FILE_ANY_ACCESS), and Method==0 (METHOD_BUFFERED)
(all this stuff is again defined in windev.h) which means that
are specific for the serial driver. The 'functions' are:

0x001b0050 => Function == 0x50>>2 == 0x14
0x001b0038 => Function == 0x38>>2 == 0x0E
0x001b0040 => Function == 0x40>>2 == 0x10

If you look at pegdser.h you'll end up with:

0x001b0050 => IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_DCB
0x001b0038 => IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_PROPERTIES
0x001b0040 => IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_TIMEOUTS

From the debug output we can see that IOCTL's fail with error 87
(ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER).

In the MDD/PDD layered architecture those IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_SOMETHING
are basically handled in the MDD which checks the IOCTL parameters and
simply returns
cached data (apart for IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_PROPERTIES which actually flows down
to the PDD).

From the debug output I see a 'CheckIoctlParms' function call which is not
in
the standard MDD layer, so I suspect that your driver is not using that
layer
and your impementation is not checking correctly those IOCTL's parameters.
Take a look at mdd.c in the standard serial MDD2 layer to see how they are
handled.


--

Luca Calligaris
www.eurotech.it

"Marco" <Marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Hi,

I'm developing a custom serial port device driver, and it seems to be
working fine for the most part. I'm running into a problem wrt the remote
tools -> system information feature in PB. When I run it without my
driver
loaded, it completes fine and I get valid system information. When I run
it
with my driver loaded, it looks like my driver is being opened and some
ioctl
calls are being attempted...

PID:400002 TID:210000e UARTMDB: -MDB_IOControl CheckIoctlParms failed on
code 0x001B0050, error 87
PID:400002 TID:210000e UARTMDB: -MDB_IOControl CheckIoctlParms failed on
code 0x001B0038, error 87
PID:400002 TID:210000e UARTMDB: -MDB_IOControl CheckIoctlParms failed on
code 0x001B0040, error 87

From these errors, I can tell that the ioctl codes are:

0x001b0050
0x001b0038
0x001b0040

A few questions here:

1. Is this normal behavior for the system information util to try to ioctl
a
driver?
2. Is there a way to disable this?
3. Where can I find out what IOCTLs these codes belong to?

Thanks,
Marco



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