* Make historical messages available to federated servers
Part of MSC2716: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716
Follow-up to https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9247
* Debug message not available on federation
* Add base starting insertion point when no chunk ID is provided
* Fix messages from multiple senders in historical chunk
Follow-up to https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9247
Part of MSC2716: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716
---
Previously, Synapse would throw a 403,
`Cannot force another user to join.`,
because we were trying to use `?user_id` from a single virtual user
which did not match with messages from other users in the chunk.
* Remove debug lines
* Messing with selecting insertion event extremeties
* Move db schema change to new version
* Add more better comments
* Make a fake requester with just what we need
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10276#discussion_r660999080
* Store insertion events in table
* Make base insertion event float off on its own
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10250#issuecomment-875711889
Conflicts:
synapse/rest/client/v1/room.py
* Validate that the app service can actually control the given user
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10276#issuecomment-876316455
Conflicts:
synapse/rest/client/v1/room.py
* Add some better comments on what we're trying to check for
* Continue debugging
* Share validation logic
* Add inserted historical messages to /backfill response
* Remove debug sql queries
* Some marker event implemntation trials
* Clean up PR
* Rename insertion_event_id to just event_id
* Add some better sql comments
* More accurate description
* Add changelog
* Make it clear what MSC the change is part of
* Add more detail on which insertion event came through
* Address review and improve sql queries
* Only use event_id as unique constraint
* Fix test case where insertion event is already in the normal DAG
* Remove debug changes
* Add support for MSC2716 marker events
* Process markers when we receive it over federation
* WIP: make hs2 backfill historical messages after marker event
* hs2 to better ask for insertion event extremity
But running into the `sqlite3.IntegrityError: NOT NULL constraint failed: event_to_state_groups.state_group`
error
* Add insertion_event_extremities table
* Switch to chunk events so we can auth via power_levels
Previously, we were using `content.chunk_id` to connect one
chunk to another. But these events can be from any `sender`
and we can't tell who should be able to send historical events.
We know we only want the application service to do it but these
events have the sender of a real historical message, not the
application service user ID as the sender. Other federated homeservers
also have no indicator which senders are an application service on
the originating homeserver.
So we want to auth all of the MSC2716 events via power_levels
and have them be sent by the application service with proper
PL levels in the room.
* Switch to chunk events for federation
* Add unstable room version to support new historical PL
* Messy: Fix undefined state_group for federated historical events
```
2021-07-13 02:27:57,810 - synapse.handlers.federation - 1248 - ERROR - GET-4 - Failed to backfill from hs1 because NOT NULL constraint failed: event_to_state_groups.state_group
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/handlers/federation.py", line 1216, in try_backfill
await self.backfill(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/handlers/federation.py", line 1035, in backfill
await self._auth_and_persist_event(dest, event, context, backfilled=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/handlers/federation.py", line 2222, in _auth_and_persist_event
await self._run_push_actions_and_persist_event(event, context, backfilled)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/handlers/federation.py", line 2244, in _run_push_actions_and_persist_event
await self.persist_events_and_notify(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/handlers/federation.py", line 3290, in persist_events_and_notify
events, max_stream_token = await self.storage.persistence.persist_events(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/logging/opentracing.py", line 774, in _trace_inner
return await func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/persist_events.py", line 320, in persist_events
ret_vals = await yieldable_gather_results(enqueue, partitioned.items())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/persist_events.py", line 237, in handle_queue_loop
ret = await self._per_item_callback(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/persist_events.py", line 577, in _persist_event_batch
await self.persist_events_store._persist_events_and_state_updates(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py", line 176, in _persist_events_and_state_updates
await self.db_pool.runInteraction(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/database.py", line 681, in runInteraction
result = await self.runWithConnection(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/database.py", line 770, in runWithConnection
return await make_deferred_yieldable(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twisted/python/threadpool.py", line 238, in inContext
result = inContext.theWork() # type: ignore[attr-defined]
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twisted/python/threadpool.py", line 254, in <lambda>
inContext.theWork = lambda: context.call( # type: ignore[attr-defined]
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twisted/python/context.py", line 118, in callWithContext
return self.currentContext().callWithContext(ctx, func, *args, **kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twisted/python/context.py", line 83, in callWithContext
return func(*args, **kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twisted/enterprise/adbapi.py", line 293, in _runWithConnection
compat.reraise(excValue, excTraceback)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twisted/python/deprecate.py", line 298, in deprecatedFunction
return function(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twisted/python/compat.py", line 403, in reraise
raise exception.with_traceback(traceback)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twisted/enterprise/adbapi.py", line 284, in _runWithConnection
result = func(conn, *args, **kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/database.py", line 765, in inner_func
return func(db_conn, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/database.py", line 549, in new_transaction
r = func(cursor, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/logging/utils.py", line 69, in wrapped
return f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py", line 385, in _persist_events_txn
self._store_event_state_mappings_txn(txn, events_and_contexts)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py", line 2065, in _store_event_state_mappings_txn
self.db_pool.simple_insert_many_txn(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/database.py", line 923, in simple_insert_many_txn
txn.execute_batch(sql, vals)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/database.py", line 280, in execute_batch
self.executemany(sql, args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/database.py", line 300, in executemany
self._do_execute(self.txn.executemany, sql, *args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/synapse/storage/database.py", line 330, in _do_execute
return func(sql, *args)
sqlite3.IntegrityError: NOT NULL constraint failed: event_to_state_groups.state_group
```
* Revert "Messy: Fix undefined state_group for federated historical events"
This reverts commit 187ab28611.
* Fix federated events being rejected for no state_groups
Add fix from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10439
until it merges.
* Adapting to experimental room version
* Some log cleanup
* Add better comments around extremity fetching code and why
* Rename to be more accurate to what the function returns
* Add changelog
* Ignore rejected events
* Use simplified upsert
* Add Erik's explanation of extra event checks
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10498#discussion_r680880332
* Clarify that the depth is not directly correlated to the backwards extremity that we return
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10498#discussion_r681725404
* lock only matters for sqlite
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10498#discussion_r681728061
* Move new SQL changes to its own delta file
* Clean up upsert docstring
* Bump database schema version (62)
Makes it easier to fetch user details in for example spam checker modules, without needing to use api._store or figure out database interactions.
Signed-off-by: Jason Robinson <jasonr@matrix.org>
* Make historical messages available to federated servers
Part of MSC2716: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716
Follow-up to https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9247
* Debug message not available on federation
* Add base starting insertion point when no chunk ID is provided
* Fix messages from multiple senders in historical chunk
Follow-up to https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9247
Part of MSC2716: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716
---
Previously, Synapse would throw a 403,
`Cannot force another user to join.`,
because we were trying to use `?user_id` from a single virtual user
which did not match with messages from other users in the chunk.
* Remove debug lines
* Messing with selecting insertion event extremeties
* Move db schema change to new version
* Add more better comments
* Make a fake requester with just what we need
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10276#discussion_r660999080
* Store insertion events in table
* Make base insertion event float off on its own
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10250#issuecomment-875711889
Conflicts:
synapse/rest/client/v1/room.py
* Validate that the app service can actually control the given user
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10276#issuecomment-876316455
Conflicts:
synapse/rest/client/v1/room.py
* Add some better comments on what we're trying to check for
* Continue debugging
* Share validation logic
* Add inserted historical messages to /backfill response
* Remove debug sql queries
* Some marker event implemntation trials
* Clean up PR
* Rename insertion_event_id to just event_id
* Add some better sql comments
* More accurate description
* Add changelog
* Make it clear what MSC the change is part of
* Add more detail on which insertion event came through
* Address review and improve sql queries
* Only use event_id as unique constraint
* Fix test case where insertion event is already in the normal DAG
* Remove debug changes
* Switch to chunk events so we can auth via power_levels
Previously, we were using `content.chunk_id` to connect one
chunk to another. But these events can be from any `sender`
and we can't tell who should be able to send historical events.
We know we only want the application service to do it but these
events have the sender of a real historical message, not the
application service user ID as the sender. Other federated homeservers
also have no indicator which senders are an application service on
the originating homeserver.
So we want to auth all of the MSC2716 events via power_levels
and have them be sent by the application service with proper
PL levels in the room.
* Switch to chunk events for federation
* Add unstable room version to support new historical PL
* Fix federated events being rejected for no state_groups
Add fix from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10439
until it merges.
* Only connect base insertion event to prev_event_ids
Per discussion with @erikjohnston,
https://matrix.to/#/!UytJQHLQYfvYWsGrGY:jki.re/$12bTUiObDFdHLAYtT7E-BvYRp3k_xv8w0dUQHibasJk?via=jki.re&via=matrix.org
* Make it possible to get the room_version with txn
* Allow but ignore historical events in unsupported room version
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10245#discussion_r675592489
We can't reject historical events on unsupported room versions because homeservers without knowledge of MSC2716 or the new room version don't reject historical events either.
Since we can't rely on the auth check here to stop historical events on unsupported room versions, I've added some additional checks in the processing/persisting code (`synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py` -> `_handle_insertion_event` and `_handle_chunk_event`). I've had to do some refactoring so there is method to fetch the room version by `txn`.
* Move to unique index syntax
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10245#discussion_r675638509
* High-level document how the insertion->chunk lookup works
* Remove create_event fallback for room_versions
See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10245/files#r677641879
* Use updated method name
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.38 which caused an exception at startup when SAML authentication was enabled. ([\#10477](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10477))
- Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse would not inform clients that a device had exhausted its one-time-key pool, potentially causing problems decrypting events. ([\#10485](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10485))
- Fix reporting old R30 stats as R30v2 stats. Introduced in v1.39.0rc1. ([\#10486](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10486))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Fix an error which prevented the Github Actions workflow to build the docker images from running. ([\#10461](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10461))
- Fix release script to correctly version debian changelog when doing RCs. ([\#10465](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10465))
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Merge tag 'v1.39.0rc3' into develop
Synapse 1.39.0rc3 (2021-07-28)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.38 which caused an exception at startup when SAML authentication was enabled. ([\#10477](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10477))
- Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse would not inform clients that a device had exhausted its one-time-key pool, potentially causing problems decrypting events. ([\#10485](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10485))
- Fix reporting old R30 stats as R30v2 stats. Introduced in v1.39.0rc1. ([\#10486](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10486))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Fix an error which prevented the Github Actions workflow to build the docker images from running. ([\#10461](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10461))
- Fix release script to correctly version debian changelog when doing RCs. ([\#10465](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10465))
Now that we have `simple_upsert` that should be used in preference to
trying to insert and looking for an exception. The main benefit is that
we ERROR message don't get written to postgres logs.
We also have tidy up the return value on `simple_upsert`, rather than
having a tri-state of inserted/not-inserted/unknown.
Improves type hints for:
* parse_{boolean,integer}
* parse_{boolean,integer}_from_args
* parse_json_{value,object}_from_request
And fixes any incorrect calls that resulted from unknown types.
Previously only world-readable rooms were shown. This means that
rooms which are public, knockable, or invite-only with a pending invitation,
are included in a space summary. It also applies the same logic to
the experimental room version from MSC3083 -- if a user has access
to the proper allowed rooms then it is shown in the spaces summary.
This change is made per MSC3173 allowing stripped state of a room to
be shown to any potential room joiner.
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix bug where inbound federation in a room could be delayed due to not correctly dropping a lock. Introduced in v1.37.1. ([\#10336](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10336))
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Update links to documentation in the sample config. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10287](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10287))
- Fix broken links in [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md). Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10331](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10331))
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Merge tag 'v1.38.0rc2' into develop
Synapse 1.38.0rc2 (2021-07-09)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix bug where inbound federation in a room could be delayed due to not correctly dropping a lock. Introduced in v1.37.1. ([\#10336](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10336))
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Update links to documentation in the sample config. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10287](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10287))
- Fix broken links in [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md). Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10331](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10331))
* Upsert redactions in case they already exists
Occasionally, in combination with retention, redactions aren't deleted
from the database whenever they are due for deletion. The server will
eventually try to backfill the deleted events and trip over the already
existing redaction events.
Switching to an UPSERT for those events allows us to recover from there
situations. The retention code still needs fixing but that is outside of
my current comfort zone on this code base.
This is related to #8707 where the error was discussed already.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rammhold <andreas@rammhold.de>
* Also purge redactions when purging events
Previously redacints where left behind leading to backfilling issues
when the server stumbled across the already existing yet to be
backfilled redactions.
This issues has been discussed in #8707.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rammhold <andreas@rammhold.de>
* Use fake time in tests in _get_start_of_day.
* Change the inequality of last_seen in user_daily_visits
Co-authored-by: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Fixes#9490
This will break a couple of SyTest that are expecting failures to be added to the response of a federation /send, which obviously doesn't happen now that things are asynchronous.
Two drawbacks:
Currently there is no logic to handle any events left in the staging area after restart, and so they'll only be handled on the next incoming event in that room. That can be fixed separately.
We now only process one event per room at a time. This can be fixed up further down the line.
* Move background update names out to a separate class
`EventsBackgroundUpdatesStore` gets inherited and we don't really want to
further pollute the namespace.
* Migrate stream_ordering to a bigint
* changelog
This implements refresh tokens, as defined by MSC2918
This MSC has been implemented client side in Hydrogen Web: vector-im/hydrogen-web#235
The basics of the MSC works: requesting refresh tokens on login, having the access tokens expire, and using the refresh token to get a new one.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Gliech <quentingliech@gmail.com>
We were repeatedly looking up a config option in a loop (using the
unclassed config style), which is expensive enough that it can cause
large CPU usage.
Fixes https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10030.
We were expecting milliseconds where we should have provided a value in seconds.
The impact of this bug isn't too bad. The code is intended to count the number of remote servers that the homeserver can see and report that as a metric. This metric is supposed to run initially 1 second after server startup, and every 60s as well. Instead, it ran 1,000 seconds after server startup, and every 60s after startup.
This fix allows for the correct metrics to be collected immediately, as well as preventing a random collection 1,000s in the future after startup.
Empirically, this helped my server considerably when handling gaps in Matrix HQ. The problem was that we would repeatedly call have_seen_events for the same set of (50K or so) auth_events, each of which would take many minutes to complete, even though it's only an index scan.
* Make `invalidate` and `invalidate_many` do the same thing
... so that we can do either over the invalidation replication stream, and also
because they always confused me a bit.
* Kill off `invalidate_many`
* changelog
`keylen` seems to be a thing that is frequently incorrectly set, and we don't really need it.
The only time it was used was to figure out if we had removed a subtree in `del_multi`, which we can do better by changing `TreeCache.pop` to return a different type (`TreeCacheNode`).
Commits should be independently reviewable.
Fixes: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9962
This is a fix for above problem.
I fixed it by swaping the order of insertion of new records and deletion of old ones. This ensures that we don't delete fresh database records as we do deletes before inserts.
Signed-off-by: Marek Matys <themarcq@gmail.com>
- use a tuple rather than a list for the iterable that is passed into the
wrapped function, for performance
- test that we can pass an iterable and that keys are correctly deduped.
It's not obvious that instances of SQLBaseStore each need their own
instances of random.SystemRandom(); let's just use random directly.
Introduced by 52839886d6
Signed-off-by: Dan Callahan <danc@element.io>
Now that cross signing exists there is much less of a need for other people to look at devices and verify them individually. This PR adds a config option to allow you to prevent device display names from being shared with other servers.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Raimist <aaron@raim.ist>
The hope here is that by moving all the schema files into synapse/storage/schema, it gets a bit easier for newcomers to navigate.
It certainly got easier for me to write a helpful README. There's more to do on that front, but I'll follow up with other PRs for that.
This attempts to be a direct port of https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-dinsic/pull/74 to mainline. There was some fiddling required to deal with the changes that have been made to mainline since (mainly dealing with the split of `RegistrationWorkerStore` from `RegistrationStore`, and the changes made to `self.make_request` in test code).
This basically speeds up federation by "squeezing" each individual dual database call (to destinations and destination_rooms), which previously happened per every event, into one call for an entire batch (100 max).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan de Jong <jonathan@automatia.nl>
Part of #9744
Removes all redundant `# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-` lines from files, as python 3 automatically reads source code as utf-8 now.
`Signed-off-by: Jonathan de Jong <jonathan@automatia.nl>`
The `remote_media_cache_thumbnails_media_origin_media_id_thumbna_key`
constraint is superceded by
`remote_media_repository_thumbn_media_origin_id_width_height_met` (which adds
`thumbnail_method` to the unique key).
PR #7124 made an attempt to remove the old constraint, but got the name wrong,
so it didn't work. Here we update the bg update and rerun it.
Fixes#8649.
`room_invite_state_types` was inconvenient as a configuration setting, because
anyone that ever set it would not receive any new types that were added to the
defaults. Here, we deprecate the old setting, and replace it with a couple of
new settings under `room_prejoin_state`.
Split off from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9491
Adds a storage method for getting the current presence of all local users, optionally excluding those that are offline. This will be used by the code in #9491 when a PresenceRouter module informs Synapse that a given user should have `"ALL"` user presence updates routed to them. Specifically, it is used here: b588f16e39/synapse/handlers/presence.py (L1131-L1133)
Note that there is a `get_all_presence_updates` function just above. That function is intended to walk up the table through stream IDs, and is primarily used by the presence replication stream. I could possibly make use of it in the PresenceRouter-related code, but it would be a bit of a bodge.
We had two functions named `get_forward_extremities_for_room` and
`get_forward_extremeties_for_room` that took different paramters. We
rename one of them to avoid confusion.
* Populate `internal_metadata.outlier` based on `events` table
Rather than relying on `outlier` being in the `internal_metadata` column,
populate it based on the `events.outlier` column.
* Move `outlier` out of InternalMetadata._dict
Ultimately, this will allow us to stop writing it to the database. For now, we
have to grandfather it back in so as to maintain compatibility with older
versions of Synapse.
Federation catch up mode is very inefficient if the number of events
that the remote server has missed is small, since handling gaps can be
very expensive, c.f. #9492.
Instead of going into catch up mode whenever we see an error, we instead
do so only if we've backed off from trying the remote for more than an
hour (the assumption being that in such a case it is more than a
transient failure).
Background: When we receive incoming federation traffic, and notice that we are missing prev_events from
the incoming traffic, first we do a `/get_missing_events` request, and then if we still have missing prev_events,
we set up new backwards-extremities. To do that, we need to make a `/state_ids` request to ask the remote
server for the state at those prev_events, and then we may need to then ask the remote server for any events
in that state which we don't already have, as well as the auth events for those missing state events, so that we
can auth them.
This PR attempts to optimise the processing of that state request. The `state_ids` API returns a list of the state
events, as well as a list of all the auth events for *all* of those state events. The optimisation comes from the
observation that we are currently loading all of those auth events into memory at the start of the operation, but
we almost certainly aren't going to need *all* of the auth events. Rather, we can check that we have them, and
leave the actual load into memory for later. (Ideally the federation API would tell us which auth events we're
actually going to need, but it doesn't.)
The effect of this is to reduce the number of events that I need to load for an event in Matrix HQ from about
60000 to about 22000, which means it can stay in my in-memory cache, whereas previously the sheer number
of events meant that all 60K events had to be loaded from db for each request, due to the amount of cache
churn. (NB I've already tripled the size of the cache from its default of 10K).
Unfortunately I've ended up basically C&Ping `_get_state_for_room` and `_get_events_from_store_or_dest` into
a new method, because `_get_state_for_room` is also called during backfill, which expects the auth events to be
returned, so the same tricks don't work. That said, I don't really know why that codepath is completely different
(ultimately we're doing the same thing in setting up a new backwards extremity) so I've left a TODO suggesting
that we clean it up.
Patrick Cloke