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What is the role of PAGE section in windows Drivers?

Reverse Engineering Asked on July 26, 2021

I have seen many drivers with a section named PAGE, but couldn’t find good enough information on it, what is the role of this section?

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Simple, it's a section that will supposedly be mapped as paged memory. This can contain code or data and is governed by the PAGED_CODE macro, among others, at source code level.

That is, whatever gets stored in that section cannot be accessed at arbitrary IRQLs. Quote:

If the IRQL > APC_LEVEL, the PAGED_CODE macro causes the system to ASSERT.

Also see this for an entry point into the overall topic. But I reckon given the specific nature of your question you are aware of paged and nonpaged pool and so on.

Correct answer by 0xC0000022L on July 26, 2021

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