Weakness in auth chain indexing allows DoS from remote room members
through disk fill and high CPU usage.
A remote Matrix user with malicious intent, sharing a room with Synapse
instances before 1.104.1, can dispatch specially crafted events to
exploit a weakness in how the auth chain cover index is calculated. This
can induce high CPU consumption and accumulate excessive data in the
database of such instances, resulting in a denial of service.
Servers in private federations, or those that do not federate, are not
affected.
PR #16942 removed an invalid optimisation that avoided pulling out state
for non-gappy syncs. This causes a large increase in DB usage. c.f.
#16941 for why that optimisation was wrong.
However, we can still optimise in the simple case where the events in
the timeline are a linear chain without any branching/merging of the
DAG.
cc. @richvdh
Before we were pulling out *all* read receipts for a user for every
event we pushed. Instead let's only pull out the relevant receipts.
This also pulled out the event rows for each receipt, causing load on
the events table.
This PR fixes a very, very niche edge-case, but I've got some more work
coming which will otherwise make the problem worse.
The bug happens when the syncing user leaves a room, and has a sync
filter which includes "left" rooms, but sets the timeline limit to 0. In
that case, the state returned in the `state` section is calculated
incorrectly.
The fix is to pass a token corresponding to the point that the user
leaves the room through to `compute_state_delta`.
Requests may require a User-Agent header, and the change in #16972
accidentally removed it, resulting in requests getting rejected causing
login to fail.
Fixes https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16680, as well as a
related bug, where servers which we had *never* successfully sent an
event to would not be retried.
In order to fix the case of pending to-device messages, we hook into the
existing `wake_destinations_needing_catchup` process, by extending it to
look for destinations that have pending to-device messages. The
federation transmission loop then attempts to send the pending to-device
messages as normal.
When running unit tests, we patch the database connection pool so that
it runs queries "synchronously". This is ok, except that if any queries
are launched before we do the patching, those queries get left in limbo
and never complete.
To fix this, let's change the way we do the switcheroo, by patching out
the method which creates the connection pool in the first place.
I have a use case where I'd like the Synapse image to start up a
postgres instance that I can use, but don't want to force Synapse to use
postgres as well.
This commit prevents postgres from being started when it has already
been explicitly enabled elsewhere.
