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Add remote invite -> join/reject tests for rooms that a homeserver is already participating in #757

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@MadLittleMods MadLittleMods commented Jan 18, 2025

Add remote invite -> join/reject tests for rooms that a homeserver is already participating in

Regression tests for element-hq/synapse#18075

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Signed-off-by: Eric Eastwood [email protected]

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Thorough documentation, but you can probably do better tests here. The current ones are end-to-end with two HS impls, so you cannot engineer the race condition. If you used a Complement HS you could control when the invite comes in via /send.

MadLittleMods added a commit to element-hq/synapse that referenced this pull request Jan 27, 2025
This also happens for rejecting an invite. Basically, any out-of-band membership transition where we first get the membership as an `outlier` and then rely on federation filling us in to de-outlier it.

This PR mainly addresses automated test flakiness, bots/scripts, and options within Synapse like [`auto_accept_invites`](https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/v1.122/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html#auto_accept_invites) that are able to react quickly (before federation is able to push us events), but also helps in generic scenarios where federation is lagging.

I initially thought this might be a Synapse consistency issue (see issues labeled with [`Z-Read-After-Write`](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/labels/Z-Read-After-Write)) but it seems to be an event auth logic problem. Workers probably do increase the number of possible race condition scenarios that make this visible though (replication and cache invalidation lag).

Fix #15012
(probably fixes matrix-org/synapse#15012 (#15012))
Related to matrix-org/matrix-spec#2062

Problems:

 1. We don't consider [out-of-band membership](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/blob/develop/docs/development/room-dag-concepts.md#out-of-band-membership-events) (outliers) in our `event_auth` logic even though we expose them in `/sync`.
 1. (This PR doesn't address this point) Perhaps we should consider authing events in the persistence queue as events already in the queue could allow subsequent events to be allowed (events come through many channels: federation transaction, remote invite, remote join, local send). But this doesn't save us in the case where the event is more delayed over federation.


### What happened before?

I wrote some Complement test that stresses this exact scenario and reproduces the problem: matrix-org/complement#757

```
COMPLEMENT_ALWAYS_PRINT_SERVER_LOGS=1 COMPLEMENT_DIR=../complement ./scripts-dev/complement.sh -run TestSynapseConsistency
```


We have `hs1` and `hs2` running in monolith mode (no workers):

 1. `@charlie1:hs2` is invited and joins the room:
     1. `hs1` invites `@charlie1:hs2` to a room which we receive on `hs2` as `PUT /_matrix/federation/v1/invite/{roomId}/{eventId}` (`on_invite_request(...)`) and the invite membership is persisted as an outlier. The `room_memberships` and `local_current_membership` database tables are also updated which means they are visible down `/sync` at this point.
     1. `@charlie1:hs2` decides to join because it saw the invite down `/sync`. Because `hs2` is not yet in the room, this happens as a remote join `make_join`/`send_join` which comes back with all of the auth events needed to auth successfully and now `@charlie1:hs2` is successfully joined to the room.
 1. `@charlie2:hs2` is invited and and tries to join the room:
     1. `hs1` invites `@charlie2:hs2` to the room which we receive on `hs2` as `PUT /_matrix/federation/v1/invite/{roomId}/{eventId}` (`on_invite_request(...)`) and the invite membership is persisted as an outlier. The `room_memberships` and `local_current_membership` database tables are also updated which means they are visible down `/sync` at this point.
     1. Because `hs2` is already participating in the room, we also see the invite come over federation in a transaction and we start processing it (not done yet, see below)
     1. `@charlie2:hs2` decides to join because it saw the invite down `/sync`. Because `hs2`, is already in the room, this happens as a local join but we deny the event because our `event_auth` logic thinks that we have no membership in the room ❌ (expected to be able to join because we saw the invite down `/sync`)
     1. We finally finish processing the `@charlie2:hs2` invite event from and de-outlier it.
         - If this finished before we tried to join we would have been fine but this is the race condition that makes this situation visible.


Logs for `hs2`:

```
🗳️ on_invite_request: handling event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$PRPCvdXdcqyjdUKP_NxGF2CcukmwOaoK0ZR1WiVOZVk, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-2-charlie1:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=False>
🔦 _store_room_members_txn update room_memberships: <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$PRPCvdXdcqyjdUKP_NxGF2CcukmwOaoK0ZR1WiVOZVk, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-2-charlie1:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=True>
🔦 _store_room_members_txn update local_current_membership: <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$PRPCvdXdcqyjdUKP_NxGF2CcukmwOaoK0ZR1WiVOZVk, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-2-charlie1:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=True>
📨 Notifying about new event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$PRPCvdXdcqyjdUKP_NxGF2CcukmwOaoK0ZR1WiVOZVk, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-2-charlie1:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=True>
✅ on_invite_request: handled event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$PRPCvdXdcqyjdUKP_NxGF2CcukmwOaoK0ZR1WiVOZVk, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-2-charlie1:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=True>
🧲 do_invite_join for @user-2-charlie1:hs2 in !sfZVBdLUezpPWetrol:hs1
🔦 _store_room_members_txn update room_memberships: <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$bwv8LxFnqfpsw_rhR7OrTjtz09gaJ23MqstKOcs7ygA, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-1-alice:hs1, membership=join, outlier=True>
🔦 _store_room_members_txn update room_memberships: <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$oju1ts3G3pz5O62IesrxX5is4LxAwU3WPr4xvid5ijI, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-2-charlie1:hs2, membership=join, outlier=False>
📨 Notifying about new event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$oju1ts3G3pz5O62IesrxX5is4LxAwU3WPr4xvid5ijI, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-2-charlie1:hs2, membership=join, outlier=False>

...

🗳️ on_invite_request: handling event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$O_54j7O--6xMsegY5EVZ9SA-mI4_iHJOIoRwYyeWIPY, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=False>
🔦 _store_room_members_txn update room_memberships: <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$O_54j7O--6xMsegY5EVZ9SA-mI4_iHJOIoRwYyeWIPY, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=True>
🔦 _store_room_members_txn update local_current_membership: <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$O_54j7O--6xMsegY5EVZ9SA-mI4_iHJOIoRwYyeWIPY, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=True>
📨 Notifying about new event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$O_54j7O--6xMsegY5EVZ9SA-mI4_iHJOIoRwYyeWIPY, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=True>
✅ on_invite_request: handled event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$O_54j7O--6xMsegY5EVZ9SA-mI4_iHJOIoRwYyeWIPY, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=True>
📬 handling received PDU in room !sfZVBdLUezpPWetrol:hs1: <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$O_54j7O--6xMsegY5EVZ9SA-mI4_iHJOIoRwYyeWIPY, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=False>
📮 handle_new_client_event: handling <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$WNVDTQrxy5tCdPQHMyHyIn7tE4NWqKsZ8Bn8R4WbBSA, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=join, outlier=False>
❌ Denying new event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$WNVDTQrxy5tCdPQHMyHyIn7tE4NWqKsZ8Bn8R4WbBSA, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=join, outlier=False> because 403: You are not invited to this room.
synapse.http.server - 130 - INFO - POST-16 - <SynapseRequest at 0x7f460c91fbf0 method='POST' uri='/_matrix/client/v3/join/%21sfZVBdLUezpPWetrol:hs1?server_name=hs1' clientproto='HTTP/1.0' site='8080'> SynapseError: 403 - You are not invited to this room.
📨 Notifying about new event <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$O_54j7O--6xMsegY5EVZ9SA-mI4_iHJOIoRwYyeWIPY, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=False>
✅ handled received PDU in room !sfZVBdLUezpPWetrol:hs1: <FrozenEventV3 event_id=$O_54j7O--6xMsegY5EVZ9SA-mI4_iHJOIoRwYyeWIPY, type=m.room.member, state_key=@user-3-charlie2:hs2, membership=invite, outlier=False>
```
@MadLittleMods MadLittleMods merged commit 8f0c763 into matrix-org:main Jan 27, 2025
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MadLittleMods commented Jan 27, 2025

Good shout @kegsay! I'll continue on an engineered solution to go alongside these ⏩ (working on this in #760)

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