INFO: MmMapLockedPages Returns Actual Virtual Address In SP4

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SUMMARY

In the Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 and earlier versions, MmMapLockedPages returns the base virtual address (a page-aligned address) that maps the locked pages for the range described by the MDL. However, this has been changed in Service Pack 4 and later versions to return the actual virtual address including the byte offset within a page of the buffer described by the MDL.

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In Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 and earlier versions, if the buffer described by the MDL is not page-aligned then you have to add the offset stored in the MDL with the base virtual address returned by the function to get the actual address as shown here:

VirtualAddress = (PVOID) (((ULONG) MmMapLockedPages(Mdl, Mode)) +  MmGetMdlByteOffset(Mdl));

In Service Pack 4 and later versions, this function has been altered to consider the byte offset stored in the MDL and returns the actual virtual address as shown here:

VirtualAddress = (PVOID) MmMapLockedPages(Mdl, Mode);

To fix the above mentioned inconsistencies and make the code portable across all versions of Windows NT, use the following:

VirtualAddress = (PVOID) (((ULONG) MmMapLockedPages(Mdl, Mode)) | MmGetMdlByteOffset(Mdl));

VirtualAddress = (PVOID)(((ULONG)PAGE_ALIGN(MmMapLockedPages(Mdl, Mode))) + MmGetMdlByteOffset(Mdl));

Microsoft has confirmed the pre-Service Pack 4 behavior of this function to be a bug and has fixed it in order to resolve memory addressing issues on future releases of Windows NT; Windows NT 64-bit in particular.

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