IoGetCurrentProcess

The IoGetCurrentProcess routine returns a pointer to the current process.

PEPROCESS 
  IoGetCurrentProcess(
    );

Parameters

None

Return Value

IoGetCurrentProcess returns a pointer to the current process.

Headers

Declared in wdm.h and ntddk.h. Include wdm.h or ntddk.h.

Comments

In general, highest-level drivers, particularly file systems, are most likely to call this routine. An intermediate or underlying device driver seldom is called in the context of a thread that originates the current I/O request that the driver is processing, so it cannot get access to such a thread’s process space.

Callers of IoGetCurrentProcess must be running at IRQL = PASSIVE_LEVEL.

See Also

PsGetCurrentThread