Various fixes in fetchAuthEvents

roomserver/internal/input/input_events.go

@@ -205,9 +205,27 @@ func (r *Inputer) processRoomEvent(
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Check that the auth events of the event are known.
+	// If they aren't then we will ask the federation API for them.
+	authEvents, _ := gomatrixserverlib.NewAuthEvents(nil)
+	knownEvents := map[string]*types.Event{}
+	if err = r.fetchAuthEvents(ctx, logger, roomInfo, virtualHost, headered, authEvents, knownEvents, serverRes.ServerNames); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("r.fetchAuthEvents: %w", err)
+	}
+
 	isRejected := false
 	var rejectionErr error
 
+	// Check if the event is allowed by its auth events. If it isn't then
+	// we consider the event to be "rejected" — it will still be persisted.
+	if err = gomatrixserverlib.Allowed(event, authEvents, func(roomID spec.RoomID, senderID spec.SenderID) (*spec.UserID, error) {
+		return r.Queryer.QueryUserIDForSender(ctx, roomID, senderID)
+	}); err != nil {
+		isRejected = true
+		rejectionErr = err
+		logger.WithError(rejectionErr).Warnf("Event %s not allowed by auth events", event.EventID())
+	}
+
 	// At this point we are checking whether we know all of the prev events, and
 	// if we know the state before the prev events. This is necessary before we
 	// try to do `calculateAndSetState` on the event later, otherwise it will fail
@@ -283,24 +301,6 @@ func (r *Inputer) processRoomEvent(
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Check that the auth events of the event are known.
-	// If they aren't then we will ask the federation API for them.
-	authEvents, _ := gomatrixserverlib.NewAuthEvents(nil)
-	knownEvents := map[string]*types.Event{}
-	if err = r.fetchAuthEvents(ctx, logger, roomInfo, virtualHost, headered, authEvents, knownEvents, serverRes.ServerNames); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("r.fetchAuthEvents: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	// Check if the event is allowed by its auth events. If it isn't then
-	// we consider the event to be "rejected" — it will still be persisted.
-	if err = gomatrixserverlib.Allowed(event, authEvents, func(roomID spec.RoomID, senderID spec.SenderID) (*spec.UserID, error) {
-		return r.Queryer.QueryUserIDForSender(ctx, roomID, senderID)
-	}); err != nil {
-		isRejected = true
-		rejectionErr = err
-		logger.WithError(rejectionErr).Warnf("Event %s not allowed by auth events", event.EventID())
-	}
-
 	// Accumulate the auth event NIDs.
 	authEventIDs := event.AuthEventIDs()
 	authEventNIDs := make([]types.EventNID, 0, len(authEventIDs))
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ func (r *Inputer) processRoomEvent(
 					)
 				}
 			}
-		} else {
+		} else if !knownEvents[authEventID].Rejected {
 			authEventNIDs = append(authEventNIDs, knownEvents[authEventID].EventNID)
 		}
 	}
@@ -704,15 +704,14 @@ func (r *Inputer) fetchAuthEvents(
 		}
 		ev := authEvents[0]
 
-		isRejected := false
 		if roomInfo != nil {
-			isRejected, err = r.DB.IsEventRejected(ctx, roomInfo.RoomNID, ev.EventID())
+			ev.Rejected, err = r.DB.IsEventRejected(ctx, roomInfo.RoomNID, ev.EventID())
 			if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
 				return fmt.Errorf("r.DB.IsEventRejected failed: %w", err)
 			}
 		}
 		known[authEventID] = &ev // don't take the pointer of the iterated event
-		if !isRejected {
+		if !ev.Rejected {
 			if err = auth.AddEvent(ev.PDU); err != nil {
 				return fmt.Errorf("auth.AddEvent: %w", err)
 			}
@@ -744,8 +743,13 @@ func (r *Inputer) fetchAuthEvents(
 		return fmt.Errorf("no servers provided event auth for event ID %q, tried servers %v", event.EventID(), servers)
 	}
 
+	// Start with a clean state and see if we can auth with what the remote
+	// server told us. Otherwise earlier topologically sorted events could
+	// fail to be authed by more recent referenced ones.
+	auth.Clear()
+
 	// Reuse these to reduce allocations.
-	authEventNIDs := make([]types.EventNID, 0, 5)
+	_authEventNIDs := [5]types.EventNID{}
 	isRejected := false
 nextAuthEvent:
 	for _, authEvent := range gomatrixserverlib.ReverseTopologicalOrdering(
@@ -755,7 +759,11 @@ nextAuthEvent:
 		// If we already know about this event from the database then we don't
 		// need to store it again or do anything further with it, so just skip
 		// over it rather than wasting cycles.
-		if ev, ok := known[authEvent.EventID()]; ok && ev != nil {
+		if ev, ok := known[authEvent.EventID()]; ok && ev != nil && !ev.Rejected {
+			// Need to add to the auth set for the next event being processed.
+			if err := auth.AddEvent(authEvent); err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("auth.AddEvent: %w", err)
+			}
 			continue nextAuthEvent
 		}
 
@@ -770,11 +778,11 @@ nextAuthEvent:
 
 		// In order to store the new auth event, we need to know its auth chain
 		// as NIDs for the `auth_event_nids` column. Let's see if we can find those.
-		authEventNIDs = authEventNIDs[:0]
+		authEventNIDs := _authEventNIDs[:0]
 		for _, eventID := range authEvent.AuthEventIDs() {
 			knownEvent, ok := known[eventID]
 			if !ok {
-				continue nextAuthEvent
+				return fmt.Errorf("auth event ID %s not known but should be", eventID)
 			}
 			authEventNIDs = append(authEventNIDs, knownEvent.EventNID)
 		}
@@ -821,6 +829,7 @@ nextAuthEvent:
 		// Now we know about this event, it was stored and the signatures were OK.
 		known[authEvent.EventID()] = &types.Event{
 			EventNID: eventNID,
+			Rejected: isRejected,
 			PDU:      authEvent,
 		}
 	}

roomserver/types/types.go

@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ func (s StateAtEventAndReferences) EventIDs() string {
 // It is when performing bulk event lookup in the database.
 type Event struct {
 	EventNID EventNID
+	Rejected bool
 	gomatrixserverlib.PDU
 }
 

sytest-blacklist

@@ -17,4 +17,8 @@ If a device list update goes missing, the server resyncs on the next one
 Leaves are present in non-gapped incremental syncs
 
 # We don't have any state to calculate m.room.guest_access when accepting invites
-Guest users can accept invites to private rooms over federation
+Guest users can accept invites to private rooms over federation
+
+# Tests Synapse specific behavior
+/state returns M_NOT_FOUND for an outlier
+/state_ids returns M_NOT_FOUND for an outlier

sytest-whitelist

@@ -774,8 +774,6 @@ Remote user can backfill in a room with version 10
 Can reject invites over federation for rooms with version 10
 Can receive redactions from regular users over federation in room version 10
 New federated private chats get full presence information (SYN-115)
-/state returns M_NOT_FOUND for an outlier
-/state_ids returns M_NOT_FOUND for an outlier
 Outbound federation requests missing prev_events and then asks for /state_ids and resolves the state
 Invited user can reject invite for empty room
 Invited user can reject local invite after originator leaves