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// wdm.h
VOID IoFreeMdl(
[in] PMDL Mdl
);
View the official Windows Driver Kit DDI referenceNo description available.
The IoFreeMdl routine releases a caller-allocated memory descriptor list (MDL).
Mdl [in]Pointer to the MDL to be released.
If a driver allocates an MDL to describe a buffer, it must explicitly release the MDL when operations on the buffer are done.
If the MDL is a partial MDL, IoFreeMdl unmaps any pages that have been mapped to the MDL.
If the physical pages that are described by the MDL are locked, the driver must unlock the pages before it frees the MDL.
This routine frees only the specified MDL. Any MDLs that are chained to this MDL must be explicitly freed through additional calls to this routine. For a code example that shows how to free an MDL chain, see Using MDLs.