Merge branch 'develop' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into matrix-org-hotfixes

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/handlers/message.py b/synapse/handlers/message.py

index c4026e3a4f..ab6b5d2b0e 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/message.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/message.py
@@ -276,10 +276,14 @@ class EventCreationHandler(object):
                 where *hashes* is a map from algorithm to hash.
 
                 If None, they will be requested from the database.
-
+        Raises:
+            ResourceLimitError if server is blocked to some resource being
+            exceeded
         Returns:
             Tuple of created event (FrozenEvent), Context
         """
+        yield self.auth.check_auth_blocking(requester.user.to_string())
+
         builder = self.event_builder_factory.new(event_dict)
 
         self.validator.validate_new(builder)
@@ -774,11 +778,8 @@ class EventCreationHandler(object):
             event, context=context
         )
 
-        # this intentionally does not yield: we don't care about the result
-        # and don't need to wait for it.
-        run_in_background(
-            self.pusher_pool.on_new_notifications,
-            event_stream_id, max_stream_id
+        self.pusher_pool.on_new_notifications(
+            event_stream_id, max_stream_id,
         )
 
         def _notify():