From 176f31c2e3e048353c4382cf5d1a34a1359f48b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 15:23:08 +0100
Subject: Rate limit early

---
 synapse/handlers/room_member.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'synapse/handlers')

diff --git a/synapse/handlers/room_member.py b/synapse/handlers/room_member.py
index ad3df7cc7d..3e86b9c690 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/room_member.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/room_member.py
@@ -710,8 +710,9 @@ class RoomMemberHandler(object):
                     Codes.FORBIDDEN,
                 )
 
-        # Check whether we'll be ratelimited
-        yield self.base_handler.ratelimit(requester, update=False)
+        # We need to rate limit *before* we send out any 3PID invites, so we
+        # can't just rely on the standard ratelimiting of events.
+        yield self.base_handler.ratelimit(requester)
 
         invitee = yield self._lookup_3pid(
             id_server, medium, address
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