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PR #125536 added an AddPropertyToLookUpTable call inside CMiniMdRW::AddPropertyToPropertyMap (and AddEventToLookUpTable inside AddEventToEventMap) so that the ENC/hot-reload path, which reaches those functions via metamodelenc.cpp rather than RegMeta::DefineProperty, would also maintain the property/event parent lookup table (fixing #125534).

However the emit path already appended to the lookup table: DefineProperty and _DefineEvent call AddPropertyToPropertyMap/AddEventToEventMap and then also call Add*ToLookUpTable themselves, gated on HasIndirectTable. The S_FALSE branch in AddPropertyToPropertyMap fires under exactly the same condition (an indirect PropertyPtr/EventPtr table exists), so after #125536 the emit path appended the same <member, typedef> entry twice.

AddToLookUpTable only appends once the lazily-built lookup map is non-NULL (the map is built on demand by a reader in FindParentOfHelper). When a concurrent reader has built the map, the duplicate append desyncs the map's Count from the member RID, so a subsequently emitted member is recorded against the wrong parent typedef, surfacing as a TypeLoadException. This is why the regression only reproduces under concurrent emit + reflection.

Remove the now-redundant emit-side appends so the lookup table is maintained in exactly one place (AddPropertyToPropertyMap/AddEventToEventMap), which serves both the emit and ENC/hot-reload callers and preserves the #125534 fix.

Fixes #129230

PR dotnet#125536 added an AddPropertyToLookUpTable call inside
CMiniMdRW::AddPropertyToPropertyMap (and AddEventToLookUpTable inside
AddEventToEventMap) so that the ENC/hot-reload path, which reaches those
functions via metamodelenc.cpp rather than RegMeta::DefineProperty, would
also maintain the property/event parent lookup table (fixing dotnet#125534).

However the emit path already appended to the lookup table: DefineProperty
and _DefineEvent call AddPropertyToPropertyMap/AddEventToEventMap and then
also call Add*ToLookUpTable themselves, gated on HasIndirectTable. The
S_FALSE branch in AddPropertyToPropertyMap fires under exactly the same
condition (an indirect PropertyPtr/EventPtr table exists), so after dotnet#125536
the emit path appended the same <member, typedef> entry twice.

Add*ToLookUpTable only appends once the lazily-built lookup map is non-NULL
(the map is built on demand by a reader in FindParentOf*Helper). When a
concurrent reader has built the map, the duplicate append desyncs the map's
Count from the member RID, so a subsequently emitted member is recorded
against the wrong parent typedef, surfacing as a TypeLoadException. This is
why the regression only reproduces under concurrent emit + reflection.

Remove the now-redundant emit-side appends so the lookup table is maintained
in exactly one place (AddPropertyToPropertyMap/AddEventToEventMap), which
serves both the emit and ENC/hot-reload callers and preserves the dotnet#125534
fix.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview

This PR adjusts CoreCLR’s metadata emit path to avoid duplicating updates to the property/event parent lookup tables, ensuring those tables are maintained in a single location (via CMiniMdRW::AddPropertyToPropertyMap / AddEventToEventMap). This is intended to prevent lookup-table corruption that can surface as TypeLoadException in concurrent Reflection.Emit + reflection scenarios.

Changes:

  • Remove the emit-side AddEventToLookUpTable append from RegMeta::_DefineEvent.
  • Remove the emit-side AddPropertyToLookUpTable append from RegMeta::DefineProperty.

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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File Description
src/coreclr/md/compiler/regmeta_emit.cpp Removes redundant event lookup-table append in _DefineEvent.
src/coreclr/md/compiler/emit.cpp Removes redundant property lookup-table append in DefineProperty.

Comment thread src/coreclr/md/compiler/emit.cpp
Comment on lines 2751 to 2752
IfFailGo(_SetPropertyProps(*pmdProp, dwPropFlags, dwCPlusTypeFlag, pValue, cchValue, mdSetter,
mdGetter, rmdOtherMethods));
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Motivation: PR #125536 added lookup-table maintenance inside CMiniMdRW::AddPropertyToPropertyMap / AddEventToEventMap so the ENC/hot-reload path (which reaches those functions via metamodelenc.cpp rather than RegMeta::DefineProperty) would also maintain the property/event parent lookup table (#125534). But the emit path already appended to the lookup table itself in DefineProperty / _DefineEvent, so after #125536 the emit path appended the same <member, typedef> entry twice. When a concurrent reader had lazily built the lookup map, the duplicate append desynced the map Count from the member RID, recording a subsequently emitted member against the wrong parent typedef and surfacing as a TypeLoadException (#129230). This is why the regression only reproduces under concurrent emit + reflection.

Approach: Remove the now-redundant emit-side AddPropertyToLookUpTable / AddEventToLookUpTable calls in DefineProperty and _DefineEvent, leaving lookup-table maintenance in exactly one place. I verified the S_FALSE (indirect-table-present) branch of AddPropertyToPropertyMap/AddEventToEventMap fires under the same HasIndirectTable(TBL_Property/TBL_Event) condition that the removed emit code checked, and that both the emit path (emit.cpp / regmeta_emit.cpp) and the ENC path (metamodelenc.cpp eDeltaPropertyCreate/eDeltaEventCreate) route through those map functions. The append is therefore still performed exactly once per member on both callers, and AddPropertyToLookUpTable/AddEventToLookUpTable remain no-ops until a reader lazily builds the map, so the #125534 fix is preserved. The _ASSERTE(RidFromToken(...) == Count()) invariants in the lookup functions now hold on the emit path, whereas the double-append previously violated them.

Summary: LGTM. This is a correct, minimal, and well-targeted fix that removes a genuine double-maintenance bug introduced by #125536 while retaining the behavior that #125536 needed for the ENC path. The change is symmetric across properties and events and touches only the two redundant blocks. Non-blocking observation: because the crash only reproduces under concurrent emit + reflection map building, no automated regression test is included; that is an understandable limitation given the timing sensitivity, but a stress-style test exercising concurrent DefineProperty/DefineEvent against reflection lookups would guard against future regressions if one can be made reliable.

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