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Author SHA1 Message Date
George Bișoc
4db1b0fb62
[SDK][CMLIB] Purge volatile data of registry in a proper way with CmCheckRegistry
Thanks to CmCheckRegistry, the function can perform volatile data purging upon boot which this removes old hacky CmPrepareHive code. This also slightly refactors HvInitialize making it more proper.
2023-11-19 20:44:28 +01:00
Hermès Bélusca-Maïto
a4cad7be6b
[SDK:CMLIB][MKHIVE][BOOT:ENVIRON][NTOS:CONFIG] Add missing HvGetCell casts. Replace some ASSERT(FALSE). 2022-03-27 18:37:16 +02:00
maharmstone
e6a9aafe58 [CMLIB] Clean volatile registry entries in the same manner as Windows (#1883)
This fixes the crashes in HvpGetCellMapped on Windows Server 2003 when booting from Freeloader, as mentioned in maharmstone/btrfs#16.

When the bootloader loads the system hive, it cleans the data pertaining to any volatile keys. The Windows bootloader does this by setting SubKeyCounts[Volatile] to 0. After boot, the kernel marks any cell where this is 0 but SubKeyLists[Volatile] isn't HCELL_NIL as dirty, meaning that the sanitized version will then get flushed to the disk.

Because Freeloader sets SubKeyLists[Volatile] to HCELL_NIL straightaway, Windows thinks the cell is clean, and can unload it without flushing. If it then reads it from the disk, it will crash in HvpGetCellMapped due to the stale volatile pointers.

If you break on nt!CmpInitializeSystemHive on Windows and "gu" to the let the function run, you'll see that DirtyVector of the HHIVE has only the first 8 bits set. If you run it using the official bootloader, it'll have a lot more than that.
2019-08-27 02:39:27 +02:00
Colin Finck
c2c66aff7d Git conversion: Make reactos the root directory, move rosapps, rostests, wallpapers into modules, and delete rossubsys. 2017-10-03 07:45:34 +00:00
Renamed from reactos/sdk/lib/cmlib/cminit.c (Browse further)