From b8551f00b257ab47335fa8f1eb15af633773cbc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Ralston <travpc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 15:25:59 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent the permalink creator from causing cascading failure

---
 src/matrix-to.js | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/matrix-to.js b/src/matrix-to.js
index 7223f2e33d..bb7ddfbd94 100644
--- a/src/matrix-to.js
+++ b/src/matrix-to.js
@@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ export class RoomPermalinkCreator {
     }
 
     load() {
+        if (!this._room || !this._room.currentState) {
+            // Under rare and unknown circumstances it is possible to have a room with no
+            // currentState, at least potentially at the early stages of joining a room.
+            // To avoid breaking everything, we'll just warn rather than throw as well as
+            // not bother updating the various aspects of the share link.
+            console.warn("Tried to load a permalink creator with no room state");
+            return;
+        }
         this._updateAllowedServers();
         this._updateHighestPlUser();
         this._updatePopulationMap();