What does BSOD 0x2A (INCONSISTENT_IRP) mean?

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Description: INCONSISTENT_IRP means Windows found internally inconsistent information in an I/O request packet.

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INCONSISTENT_IRP

The INCONSISTENT_IRP bug check has a value of 0x0000002A. This indicates that an IRP was found to contain inconsistent information.

INCONSISTENT_IRP Parameters

Parameter	Description
1	The address of the IRP that was found to be inconsistent
2	Reserved
3	Reserved
4	Reserved

Cause

An IRP was discovered to be in an inconsistent state. Usually this means some field of the IRP was inconsistent with the remaining state of the IRP. An example would be an IRP that was being completed, but was still marked as being queued to a driver's device queue.

Remarks

This bug check code is not currently being used in the system, but exists for debugging purposes.

References

Microsoft: Bug Check Code Reference

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