diff --git a/src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler/Compiler/Dataflow/CompilerGeneratedState.cs b/src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler/Compiler/Dataflow/CompilerGeneratedState.cs
index 359ccf70cfe78..cbfb822cc3c49 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler/Compiler/Dataflow/CompilerGeneratedState.cs
+++ b/src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler/Compiler/Dataflow/CompilerGeneratedState.cs
@@ -288,24 +288,11 @@ referencedMethod.OwningType is MetadataType generatedType &&
                     {
                         Debug.Assert(generatedType == generatedType.GetTypeDefinition());
 
-                        if (HasGenericParameters(generatedType))
+                        if (generatedType.HasInstantiation)
                             MapGeneratedTypeTypeParameters(generatedType);
                     }
                 }
 
-                /// <summary>
-                /// Check if the type itself is generic. The only difference is that
-                /// if the type is a nested type, the generic parameters from its
-                /// parent type don't count.
-                /// </summary>
-                static bool HasGenericParameters(MetadataType typeDef)
-                {
-                    if (typeDef.ContainingType == null)
-                        return typeDef.HasInstantiation;
-
-                    return typeDef.Instantiation.Length > typeDef.ContainingType.Instantiation.Length;
-                }
-
                 void MapGeneratedTypeTypeParameters(MetadataType generatedType)
                 {
                     Debug.Assert(CompilerGeneratedNames.IsGeneratedType(generatedType.Name));
diff --git a/src/tools/illink/src/linker/Linker.Dataflow/CompilerGeneratedState.cs b/src/tools/illink/src/linker/Linker.Dataflow/CompilerGeneratedState.cs
index cc7d205b9fb9d..04617793f7f3a 100644
--- a/src/tools/illink/src/linker/Linker.Dataflow/CompilerGeneratedState.cs
+++ b/src/tools/illink/src/linker/Linker.Dataflow/CompilerGeneratedState.cs
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ referencedMethod.DeclaringType is var generatedType &&
 			// Now that we have instantiating methods fully filled out, walk the generated types and fill in the attribute
 			// providers
 			foreach (var generatedType in generatedTypeToTypeArgs.Keys) {
-				if (HasGenericParameters (generatedType)) {
+				if (generatedType.HasGenericParameters) {
 					MapGeneratedTypeTypeParameters (generatedType, generatedTypeToTypeArgs, _context);
 					// Finally, add resolved type arguments to the cache
 					var info = generatedTypeToTypeArgs[generatedType];
@@ -298,19 +298,6 @@ referencedMethod.DeclaringType is var generatedType &&
 			_cachedTypeToCompilerGeneratedMembers.Add (type, compilerGeneratedCallees);
 			return type;
 
-			/// <summary>
-			/// Check if the type itself is generic. The only difference is that
-			/// if the type is a nested type, the generic parameters from its
-			/// parent type don't count.
-			/// </summary>
-			static bool HasGenericParameters (TypeDefinition typeDef)
-			{
-				if (!typeDef.IsNested)
-					return typeDef.HasGenericParameters;
-
-				return typeDef.GenericParameters.Count > typeDef.DeclaringType.GenericParameters.Count;
-			}
-
 			/// <summary>
 			/// Attempts to reverse the process of the compiler's alpha renaming. So if the original code was
 			/// something like this:
diff --git a/src/tools/illink/test/Mono.Linker.Tests.Cases/DataFlow/CompilerGeneratedTypes.cs b/src/tools/illink/test/Mono.Linker.Tests.Cases/DataFlow/CompilerGeneratedTypes.cs
index f99a80b202292..c414bc252d128 100644
--- a/src/tools/illink/test/Mono.Linker.Tests.Cases/DataFlow/CompilerGeneratedTypes.cs
+++ b/src/tools/illink/test/Mono.Linker.Tests.Cases/DataFlow/CompilerGeneratedTypes.cs
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ public static void Main ()
 			AsyncCapture ();
 			AsyncTypeMismatch ();
 			AsyncInsideClosure ();
+			AsyncInsideClosureNonGeneric ();
 			AsyncInsideClosureMismatch ();
 
 			// Closures
@@ -220,6 +221,22 @@ private static void AsyncInsideClosure ()
 			}
 		}
 
+		private static void AsyncInsideClosureNonGeneric ()
+		{
+			Outer<string> ();
+			void Outer<[DynamicallyAccessedMembers (DynamicallyAccessedMemberTypes.PublicMethods)] T1> ()
+			{
+				int x = 0;
+				Inner ().Wait ();
+				async Task Inner ()
+				{
+					await Task.Delay (0);
+					x++;
+					_ = typeof (T1).GetMethods ();
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
 		private static void AsyncInsideClosureMismatch ()
 		{
 			Outer<string> ();