Re: [PATCH] winebus.sys: Terminate device loop thread on shutdown.

[Rémi Bernon]

On 8/10/21 7:36 PM, Zebediah Figura (she/her) wrote:
> On 8/10/21 12:29 PM, Rémi Bernon wrote:
> > Instead of waiting for it.
> >
> > Otherwise the module may be unloaded on process shutdown while the
> > thread is still busy processing events, causing possible invalid memory
> > access (for instance when accessing the static pnp_devset device list).
>
> I'm confused; how can the thread still be running during unload if we're 
> waiting for the thread to stop?

The FDO IRP_MN_REMOVE_DEVICE is never called, and I think the process is 
shutting down and unloading its modules nonetheless. I don't know yet 
precisely how this is happening.