[Vrtule]

Hello,

I have a problem to translate name of device object to address of the object. I know, that this service is, for device objects, provided by IoGetDeviceObjectPointer, however, I cannot use the routine because of other circumstances.

Hence I thought of ObReferenceObjectByName. The routine seems to work fine for various types of objects, except the devices. Even though I specfiy *IoDeviceObjectType which should be the object type for devices, I get STATUS_OBJECT_TYPE_MISMATCH error code.

Had someone more success with the ObReferenceObjectByName routine applied to device objects than me? I would appreciate any kind of help.

I know that I can use my own implementation of some Object Manager routines, however, I would prefer more "documented/legitimate" way to achieve my task.

Thanks in advance

[EP_X0FF]

If i get it right I have the same problem few years ago with first Alureon.
http://forum.sysinternals.com/get-devic ... 15584.html

All ended with manual workaround because of lack of time and interest.

[Vrtule]

Yes, my problem is nearly the same although I would be satisfied even with the pointer to the top device in the device stack. It seems that I will try to use the second method of those you suggested in the end of your post.

[Tigzy]

Hello

Been discussed here too : http://www.kernelmode.info/forum/viewto ... jectByName
No solution found however :(

[Vrtule]

@Tigzy:

Thanks for the link.

IoGetDeviceProperty returns information about the target device from the registry. I think I have found a sencence like this in the documentation. I am using ObQueryNameString to get the name of the device.