2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/api/errors.py b/synapse/api/errors.py
index 2e7f98404d..48b903374d 100644
--- a/synapse/api/errors.py
+++ b/synapse/api/errors.py
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class Codes(object):
     RESOURCE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED = "M_RESOURCE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED"
     UNSUPPORTED_ROOM_VERSION = "M_UNSUPPORTED_ROOM_VERSION"
     INCOMPATIBLE_ROOM_VERSION = "M_INCOMPATIBLE_ROOM_VERSION"
+    WRONG_ROOM_KEYS_VERSION = "M_WRONG_ROOM_KEYS_VERSION"
 
 
 class CodeMessageException(RuntimeError):
@@ -312,6 +313,20 @@ class LimitExceededError(SynapseError):
         )
 
 
+class RoomKeysVersionError(SynapseError):
+    """A client has tried to upload to a non-current version of the room_keys store
+    """
+    def __init__(self, current_version):
+        """
+        Args:
+            current_version (str): the current version of the store they should have used
+        """
+        super(RoomKeysVersionError, self).__init__(
+            403, "Wrong room_keys version", Codes.WRONG_ROOM_KEYS_VERSION
+        )
+        self.current_version = current_version
+
+
 class IncompatibleRoomVersionError(SynapseError):
     """A server is trying to join a room whose version it does not support."""
 
diff --git a/synapse/api/filtering.py b/synapse/api/filtering.py
index eed8c67e6a..677c0bdd4c 100644
--- a/synapse/api/filtering.py
+++ b/synapse/api/filtering.py
@@ -172,7 +172,10 @@ USER_FILTER_SCHEMA = {
                 # events a lot easier as we can then use a negative lookbehind
                 # assertion to split '\.' If we allowed \\ then it would
                 # incorrectly split '\\.' See synapse.events.utils.serialize_event
-                "pattern": "^((?!\\\).)*$"
+                #
+                # Note that because this is a regular expression, we have to escape
+                # each backslash in the pattern.
+                "pattern": r"^((?!\\\\).)*$"
             }
         }
     },