Resync state after partial-state join (#12394)

We work through all the events with partial state, updating the state at each
of them. Once it's done, we recalculate the state for the whole room, and then
mark the room as having complete state.

synapse/handlers/federation.py

@@ -466,6 +466,8 @@ class FederationHandler:
             )
 
             if ret.partial_state:
+                # TODO(faster_joins): roll this back if we don't manage to start the
+                #   background resync (eg process_remote_join fails)
                 await self.store.store_partial_state_room(room_id, ret.servers_in_room)
 
             max_stream_id = await self._federation_event_handler.process_remote_join(
@@ -478,6 +480,18 @@ class FederationHandler:
                 partial_state=ret.partial_state,
             )
 
+            if ret.partial_state:
+                # Kick off the process of asynchronously fetching the state for this
+                # room.
+                #
+                # TODO(faster_joins): pick this up again on restart
+                run_as_background_process(
+                    desc="sync_partial_state_room",
+                    func=self._sync_partial_state_room,
+                    destination=origin,
+                    room_id=room_id,
+                )
+
             # We wait here until this instance has seen the events come down
             # replication (if we're using replication) as the below uses caches.
             await self._replication.wait_for_stream_position(
@@ -1370,3 +1384,64 @@ class FederationHandler:
         # We fell off the bottom, couldn't get the complexity from anyone. Oh
         # well.
         return None
+
+    async def _sync_partial_state_room(
+        self,
+        destination: str,
+        room_id: str,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Background process to resync the state of a partial-state room
+
+        Args:
+            destination: homeserver to pull the state from
+            room_id: room to be resynced
+        """
+
+        # TODO(faster_joins): do we need to lock to avoid races? What happens if other
+        #   worker processes kick off a resync in parallel? Perhaps we should just elect
+        #   a single worker to do the resync.
+        #
+        # TODO(faster_joins): what happens if we leave the room during a resync? if we
+        #   really leave, that might mean we have difficulty getting the room state over
+        #   federation.
+        #
+        # TODO(faster_joins): try other destinations if the one we have fails
+
+        logger.info("Syncing state for room %s via %s", room_id, destination)
+
+        # we work through the queue in order of increasing stream ordering.
+        while True:
+            batch = await self.store.get_partial_state_events_batch(room_id)
+            if not batch:
+                # all the events are updated, so we can update current state and
+                # clear the lazy-loading flag.
+                logger.info("Updating current state for %s", room_id)
+                assert (
+                    self.storage.persistence is not None
+                ), "TODO(faster_joins): support for workers"
+                await self.storage.persistence.update_current_state(room_id)
+
+                logger.info("Clearing partial-state flag for %s", room_id)
+                success = await self.store.clear_partial_state_room(room_id)
+                if success:
+                    logger.info("State resync complete for %s", room_id)
+
+                    # TODO(faster_joins) update room stats and user directory?
+                    return
+
+                # we raced against more events arriving with partial state. Go round
+                # the loop again. We've already logged a warning, so no need for more.
+                # TODO(faster_joins): there is still a race here, whereby incoming events which raced
+                #   with us will fail to be persisted after the call to `clear_partial_state_room` due to
+                #   having partial state.
+                continue
+
+            events = await self.store.get_events_as_list(
+                batch,
+                redact_behaviour=EventRedactBehaviour.AS_IS,
+                allow_rejected=True,
+            )
+            for event in events:
+                await self._federation_event_handler.update_state_for_partial_state_event(
+                    destination, event
+                )

synapse/handlers/federation_event.py

@@ -477,6 +477,45 @@ class FederationEventHandler:
 
             return await self.persist_events_and_notify(room_id, [(event, context)])
 
+    async def update_state_for_partial_state_event(
+        self, destination: str, event: EventBase
+    ) -> None:
+        """Recalculate the state at an event as part of a de-partial-stating process
+
+        Args:
+            destination: server to request full state from
+            event: partial-state event to be de-partial-stated
+        """
+        logger.info("Updating state for %s", event.event_id)
+        with nested_logging_context(suffix=event.event_id):
+            # if we have all the event's prev_events, then we can work out the
+            # state based on their states. Otherwise, we request it from the destination
+            # server.
+            #
+            # This is the same operation as we do when we receive a regular event
+            # over federation.
+            state = await self._resolve_state_at_missing_prevs(destination, event)
+
+            # build a new state group for it if need be
+            context = await self._state_handler.compute_event_context(
+                event,
+                old_state=state,
+            )
+            if context.partial_state:
+                # this can happen if some or all of the event's prev_events still have
+                # partial state - ie, an event has an earlier stream_ordering than one
+                # or more of its prev_events, so we de-partial-state it before its
+                # prev_events.
+                #
+                # TODO(faster_joins): we probably need to be more intelligent, and
+                #    exclude partial-state prev_events from consideration
+                logger.warning(
+                    "%s still has partial state: can't de-partial-state it yet",
+                    event.event_id,
+                )
+                return
+            await self._store.update_state_for_partial_state_event(event, context)
+
     async def backfill(
         self, dest: str, room_id: str, limit: int, extremities: Collection[str]
     ) -> None: