Article 14251 of comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode:
In article <34c6c0b6.111581390@news.alt.net>, tony@ercolano.com (Anthony V. Ercolano) writes:
> I don't believe it will still crash.  (Note that I don't have a
> functional DDK and I only have one machine, so I will pass on running
> the sample.)
> 
> Your workaround (to acquire the spinlock) essentially raises the IRQL
> to DISPATCH.
> 
> If you actually do change the sample to have the #ifdef's have an ELSE
> clause that raises and lowers the IRQL and it REALLY still does crash
> then I think you will have a really interesting bug in *your* code.

Nope.  It still crashes if you KeRaiseIrql to DISPATCH_LEVEL but don't 
use the driver-supplied spinlock.  I think it's a real bug in NT.  

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