From edac710bc0c4dc1cd226d9ffe73a00b42c2b67d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:56:53 +0100
Subject: improve efficiency of _glob_to_re

---
 synapse/push/push_rule_evaluator.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'synapse/push/push_rule_evaluator.py')

diff --git a/synapse/push/push_rule_evaluator.py b/synapse/push/push_rule_evaluator.py
index 49ecb38522..ae077af5b5 100644
--- a/synapse/push/push_rule_evaluator.py
+++ b/synapse/push/push_rule_evaluator.py
@@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ def _glob_to_re(glob: str, word_boundary: bool) -> Pattern:
     if IS_GLOB.search(glob):
         r = re.escape(glob)
 
-        r = r.replace(r"\*", ".*?")
+        # replace 1 or more repeats of `\*` with `.*?`
+        r = re.sub(r"(\\\*)+", ".*?", r)
         r = r.replace(r"\?", ".")
 
         # handle [abc], [a-z] and [!a-z] style ranges.
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