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PORaw PDO to send IOCTL to upper filter driver (kbfiltr/moufiltr) to enable/disable device
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copied!<p>I am quite new to driver development and trying to write a simple filter driver that will enable or disable a keyboard or mouse device. If I can make it work, I want to use it to disable the touchpad on my laptop when a mouse is plugged in. I realize there is probably software out there that does this already, but I am really interested in device drivers and want to learn how to do this myself.</p> <p>I am using the <strong>kbfiltr</strong> and <strong>moufiltr</strong> examples that ship with the WDK, installed as upper filter drivers. The kbfiltr example creates a pdo which can be enumerated and connected to by a usermode program. This allows me to send IOCTLs to the PDO that are handled by <strong>KbFilter_EvtIoDeviceControlForRawPdo</strong>. However, when I try and do anything at all related to the filter driver, like call into <strong>KbFilter_EvtIoInternalDeviceControl</strong> so I can do something like</p> <pre><code>VOID KbFilter_EvtIoInternalDeviceControl( IN WDFQUEUE Queue, IN WDFREQUEST Request, IN size_t OutputBufferLength, IN size_t InputBufferLength, IN ULONG IoControlCode ) ... hDevice = WdfIoQueueGetDevice(Queue); devExt = FilterGetData(hDevice); switch (IoControlCode) { ... case IOCTL_INTERNAL_KEYBOARD_DISCONNECT: // // Clear the connection parameters in the device extension. // devExt->UpperConnectData.ClassService = NULL; break; ... } </code></pre> <p>I get a BSOD. It is not the above code, in the vanilla example the set to null is commented out, just calling into Kbfilter causes the BSOD. I have tried to set the device extension directly in the PDO but this also causes a BSOD, presumably because it is the PDO devExt, not kbfiltr's?</p> <p>(related: what is a good way of getting the stack trace from a BSOD? I am using Virtual PC as my test environment and an unchecked build of XPSP3)</p> <p>I can't send an IOCTL_INTERNAL_KEYBOARD_DISCONNECT directly to the driver stack (I understand that input devices accept only one connection at a time?) hence the need for the raw PDO. I really only need to send two IOCTLs (to enable and disable) and I figured I would just use the keyboard disconnect and connect since these were already defined.</p> <p>If I am wrong about any of these assumptions, please let me know, I know I really am a noob at this but I haven't found a lot of documentation about this kind of communication via a PDO.</p>

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