From 2cb85bdf7586f5094656dce6030922849fbbdb87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 09:46:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Raise an error if an unknown preset is used to create a room.
 (#10738)

Raises a 400 error instead of a 500 if an unknown preset is passed
from a client to create a room.
---
 changelog.d/10738.misc   | 1 +
 synapse/handlers/room.py | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/10738.misc

diff --git a/changelog.d/10738.misc b/changelog.d/10738.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cef54153dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/10738.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Additional error checking for the `preset` field when creating a room.
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/room.py b/synapse/handlers/room.py
index b33fe09f77..ed780bb41f 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/room.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/room.py
@@ -909,7 +909,12 @@ class RoomCreationHandler(BaseHandler):
             )
             return last_stream_id
 
-        config = self._presets_dict[preset_config]
+        try:
+            config = self._presets_dict[preset_config]
+        except KeyError:
+            raise SynapseError(
+                400, f"'{preset_config}' is not a valid preset", errcode=Codes.BAD_JSON
+            )
 
         creation_content.update({"creator": creator_id})
         await send(etype=EventTypes.Create, content=creation_content)
-- 
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