From a0ed0f363eb84f273b2cc706fcc5542d77a94463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:08:06 +0100
Subject: Soft-fail spammy events received over federation (#10263)

---
 synapse/federation/federation_base.py | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'synapse/federation/federation_base.py')

diff --git a/synapse/federation/federation_base.py b/synapse/federation/federation_base.py
index c066617b92..2bfe6a3d37 100644
--- a/synapse/federation/federation_base.py
+++ b/synapse/federation/federation_base.py
@@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ class FederationBase:
         result = await self.spam_checker.check_event_for_spam(pdu)
 
         if result:
-            logger.warning(
-                "Event contains spam, redacting %s: %s",
-                pdu.event_id,
-                pdu.get_pdu_json(),
-            )
-            return prune_event(pdu)
+            logger.warning("Event contains spam, soft-failing %s", pdu.event_id)
+            # we redact (to save disk space) as well as soft-failing (to stop
+            # using the event in prev_events).
+            redacted_event = prune_event(pdu)
+            redacted_event.internal_metadata.soft_failed = True
+            return redacted_event
 
         return pdu
 
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