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Backport of #94643 to release/8.0-staging

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Fixes: #94579

The issue was reported by an external customer. In rare cases when creating a weak reference instance an application may crash with ExecutionEngineException in the runtime while probing for COM interop info.

The repro is a fairly large WinForms app (paint.net)

When run with GCStress=2 the crash is nearly 100% certain.

Testing

Regular testing.
Manually validated that the customer repro no longer causes EE crashes. That includes running it under GCStress=2

Risk

Low. The fix is adding a missing null-check where we had an assert.
Turns out the asserted condition may not hold when racing with GC and must be handled.

@ghost ghost added the area-VM-coreclr label Nov 12, 2023
@teo-tsirpanis teo-tsirpanis added this to the 8.0.x milestone Nov 13, 2023
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Friendly reminder: If you'd like this to be included in the December release, please merge it before Tuesday November 14th EOD (Code Complete).

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approved. we will take for consideration in 8.0.x

@AaronRobinsonMSFT AaronRobinsonMSFT added the Servicing-approved Approved for servicing release label Nov 14, 2023
@AaronRobinsonMSFT AaronRobinsonMSFT added Servicing-consider Issue for next servicing release review and removed Servicing-approved Approved for servicing release labels Nov 14, 2023
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@AaronRobinsonMSFT @jeffschwMSFT did this end up getting Tactics approval? Today is code complete.

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Today is code complete.

@carlossanlop for January?

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@carlossanlop for January?

No, it's code complete for December: https://dev.azure.com/devdiv/DevDiv/_wiki/wikis/DevDiv.wiki/38691/December-2023

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I'm starting the flow from staging to internal now, so the branches are closed. This will have to wait until the January release.

@leecow leecow added Servicing-approved Approved for servicing release and removed Servicing-consider Issue for next servicing release review labels Nov 16, 2023
@leecow leecow modified the milestones: 8.0.x, 8.0.1 Nov 16, 2023
@jeffschwMSFT jeffschwMSFT merged commit 7dc2e67 into release/8.0-staging Nov 21, 2023
@jkotas jkotas deleted the backport/pr-94643-to-release/8.0-staging branch December 2, 2023 01:31
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