Bug Check 0x16E: ERESOURCE_INVALID_RELEASE

The ERESOURCE_INVALID_RELEASE bug check has a value of 0x0000016E. This indicates that the target thread pointer supplied to ExReleaseResourceForThreadLite was invalid.

Important

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ERESOURCE_INVALID_RELEASE Parameters

Parameter	Description
1	The resource being released
2	The current thread
3	The incorrect target thread that was passed in
4	Reserved

Cause

This bugcheck will hit if a call to ExSetOwnerPointerEx was skipped by the API client (if a cross-thread release was intended) or if the caller accidentally passed in a value other that supplied by ExGetCurrentResourceThread.