[release/7.0-staging] [mono] ILStrip sorts custom attribute table #87933
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Backport of #87923 to release/7.0-staging
/cc @steveisok @jandupej
Customer Impact
When an assembly is trimmed with ILStrip, corruption of the custom attribute table can occur. This can cause searching for type attributes to fail, resulting in (rare) runtime crashes. Such an error has been observed by a customer #85414. The PR restores sorting to assembly's custom attribute table as the last step of ILStrip, resolving the said error.
Testing
Open a trimmed assembly in ILSpy and verify that all expected attributes are in place. The customer-reported example lacked all attributes for
System.DateTimeResult
inSystem.Private.CoreLib.dll
, while it should have reportedIsByRefLikeAttribute
,ObsoleteAttribute
andCompilerFeatureRequiredAttribute
. When fixed ILStrip is used, the expected attributes are present.Risk
Low. There are no new features. The length of the custom attribute table is not changed, its rows are merely sorted by
Parent
key.IMPORTANT: If this backport is for a servicing release, please verify that:
The PR target branch is
release/X.0-staging
, notrelease/X.0
.If the change touches code that ships in a NuGet package, you have added the necessary package authoring and gotten it explicitly reviewed.