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Returning Status from Completion Routines

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Note

For optimal reliability and performance, use file system minifilter drivers with Filter Manager support instead of legacy file system filter drivers. To port your legacy driver to a minifilter driver, see Guidelines for Porting Legacy Filter Drivers.

A legacy file system filter driver's completion routine normally returns one of the following two NTSTATUS values to the caller:

  • STATUS_SUCCESS

  • STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED

STATUS_SUCCESS indicates that the driver is finished with the IRP and allows the I/O Manager to continue completion processing on the IRP.

STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED halts the I/O Manager's completion processing on the IRP.

If any other NTSTATUS value is returned, the I/O Manager resets it to STATUS_SUCCESS.

For more information about returning STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED, see Constraints on Completion Routines.