Is the liberal use of depreciated function ExAllocatePoolWithTag in ntfs.sys likely to cause errors?

Matthew Muller 1 Reputation point
2021-11-09T08:43:35.327+00:00

I was investigating function calls for ntfs.sys for another issue I have, and realised that ntfs.sys was using ExAllocatePoolWithTag which has been depreciated since Windows 10 2004, according to nf-wdm-exallocatepoolwithtag

I did not search for other depreciated functions, but there probably are considering just how many times ExAllocatePoolWithTag is referenced...

Is there a beta patch for ntfs.sys? I have been having a considerable amount of issues with it for some time now.

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  1. Limitless Technology 39,811 Reputation points
    2021-11-09T18:46:22.04+00:00

    Hello @Matthew Muller

    To update the drivers and routines to use the replacement of ExAllocatePoolWithTag follow the next update manual:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/updating-deprecated-exallocatepool-calls

    Hope this helps with your query,

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