From bc1d8772dcb865469fc9dc142109e4e244ca03ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kegan Dougal <kegan@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 14:49:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Clamp min depth to 0

---
 federationapi/routing/send.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/federationapi/routing/send.go b/federationapi/routing/send.go
index 1410e5cc1..990220741 100644
--- a/federationapi/routing/send.go
+++ b/federationapi/routing/send.go
@@ -561,10 +561,14 @@ func (t *txnReq) getMissingEvents(e gomatrixserverlib.Event, roomVersion gomatri
 		latestEvents[i] = res.LatestEvents[i].EventID
 	}
 	// this server just sent us an event for which we do not know its prev_events - ask that server for those prev_events.
+	minDepth := int(res.Depth) - 20
+	if minDepth < 0 {
+		minDepth = 0
+	}
 	missingResp, err := t.federation.LookupMissingEvents(t.context, t.Origin, e.RoomID(), gomatrixserverlib.MissingEvents{
 		Limit: 20,
 		// synapse uses the min depth they've ever seen in that room
-		MinDepth: int(res.Depth) - 20,
+		MinDepth: minDepth,
 		// The latest event IDs that the sender already has. These are skipped when retrieving the previous events of latest_events.
 		EarliestEvents: latestEvents,
 		// The event IDs to retrieve the previous events for.