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synapse/handlers/user_directory.py

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+#
+# This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3.
+#
+# Copyright 2017 Vector Creations Ltd
+# Copyright (C) 2023 New Vector, Ltd
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+# License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details:
+# <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html>.
+#
+# Originally licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0:
+# <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>.
+#
+# [This file includes modifications made by New Vector Limited]
+#
+#
+
+import logging
+from http import HTTPStatus
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
+
+from twisted.internet.interfaces import IDelayedCall
+
+import synapse.metrics
+from synapse.api.constants import (
+    EventTypes,
+    HistoryVisibility,
+    JoinRules,
+    Membership,
+    ProfileFields,
+)
+from synapse.api.errors import Codes, SynapseError
+from synapse.handlers.state_deltas import MatchChange, StateDeltasHandler
+from synapse.metrics import SERVER_NAME_LABEL
+from synapse.storage.databases.main.state_deltas import StateDelta
+from synapse.storage.databases.main.user_directory import SearchResult
+from synapse.storage.roommember import ProfileInfo
+from synapse.types import UserID
+from synapse.util.duration import Duration
+from synapse.util.metrics import Measure
+from synapse.util.retryutils import NotRetryingDestination
+from synapse.util.stringutils import non_null_str_or_none
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from synapse.server import HomeServer
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Don't refresh a stale user directory entry, using a Federation /profile request,
+# for 60 seconds. This gives time for other state events to arrive (which will
+# then be coalesced such that only one /profile request is made).
+USER_DIRECTORY_STALE_REFRESH_TIME = Duration(minutes=1)
+
+# Maximum number of remote servers that we will attempt to refresh profiles for
+# in one go.
+MAX_SERVERS_TO_REFRESH_PROFILES_FOR_IN_ONE_GO = 5
+
+# As long as we have servers to refresh (without backoff), keep adding more
+# every 15 seconds.
+INTERVAL_TO_ADD_MORE_SERVERS_TO_REFRESH_PROFILES = Duration(seconds=15)
+
+
+def calculate_time_of_next_retry(now_ts: int, retry_count: int) -> int:
+    """
+    Calculates the time of a next retry given `now_ts` in ms and the number
+    of failures encountered thus far.
+
+    Currently the sequence goes:
+    1 min, 5 min, 25 min, 2 hour, 10 hour, 52 hour, 10 day, 7.75 week
+    """
+    return now_ts + 60_000 * (5 ** min(retry_count, 7))
+
+
+class UserDirectoryHandler(StateDeltasHandler):
+    """Handles queries and updates for the user_directory.
+
+    N.B.: ASSUMES IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT MODIFIES THE USER DIRECTORY
+
+    When a local user searches the user_directory, we report two kinds of users:
+
+    - users this server can see are joined to a world_readable or publicly
+      joinable room, and
+    - users belonging to a private room shared by that local user.
+
+    The two cases are tracked separately in the `users_in_public_rooms` and
+    `users_who_share_private_rooms` tables. Both kinds of users have their
+    username and avatar tracked in a `user_directory` table.
+
+    This handler has three responsibilities:
+    1. Forwarding requests to `/user_directory/search` to the UserDirectoryStore.
+    2. Providing hooks for the application to call when local users are added,
+       removed, or have their profile changed.
+    3. Listening for room state changes that indicate remote users have
+       joined or left a room, or that their profile has changed.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, hs: "HomeServer"):
+        super().__init__(hs)
+
+        self.store = hs.get_datastores().main
+        self._storage_controllers = hs.get_storage_controllers()
+        self.server_name = hs.hostname
+        self.clock = hs.get_clock()
+        self.notifier = hs.get_notifier()
+        self.is_mine_id = hs.is_mine_id
+        self.update_user_directory = hs.config.worker.should_update_user_directory
+        self.search_all_users = hs.config.userdirectory.user_directory_search_all_users
+        self.exclude_remote_users = (
+            hs.config.userdirectory.user_directory_exclude_remote_users
+        )
+        self.show_locked_users = hs.config.userdirectory.show_locked_users
+        self._spam_checker_module_callbacks = hs.get_module_api_callbacks().spam_checker
+        self._hs = hs
+
+        # The current position in the current_state_delta stream
+        self.pos: int | None = None
+
+        # Guard to ensure we only process deltas one at a time
+        self._is_processing = False
+
+        # Guard to ensure we only have one process for refreshing remote profiles
+        self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles = False
+        # Handle to cancel the `call_later` of `kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process`
+        self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later: Optional[IDelayedCall] = None
+
+        # Guard to ensure we only have one process for refreshing remote profiles
+        # for the given servers.
+        # Set of server names.
+        self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles_for_servers: set[str] = set()
+
+        if self.update_user_directory:
+            self.notifier.add_replication_callback(self.notify_new_event)
+
+            # We kick this off so that we don't have to wait for a change before
+            # we start populating the user directory
+            self.clock.call_later(
+                Duration(seconds=0),
+                self.notify_new_event,
+            )
+
+            # Kick off the profile refresh process on startup
+            self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later = self.clock.call_later(
+                Duration(seconds=10),
+                self.kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process,
+            )
+
+    async def search_users(
+        self, user_id: str, search_term: str, limit: int
+    ) -> SearchResult:
+        """Searches for users in directory
+
+        Returns:
+            dict of the form::
+
+                {
+                    "limited": <bool>,  # whether there were more results or not
+                    "results": [  # Ordered by best match first
+                        {
+                            "user_id": <user_id>,
+                            "display_name": <display_name>,
+                            "avatar_url": <avatar_url>
+                        }
+                    ]
+                }
+        """
+        results = await self.store.search_user_dir(
+            user_id, search_term, limit, self.show_locked_users
+        )
+
+        # Remove any spammy users from the results.
+        non_spammy_users = []
+        for user in results["results"]:
+            if not await self._spam_checker_module_callbacks.check_username_for_spam(
+                user, user_id
+            ):
+                non_spammy_users.append(user)
+        results["results"] = non_spammy_users
+
+        return results
+
+    def notify_new_event(self) -> None:
+        """Called when there may be more deltas to process"""
+        if not self.update_user_directory:
+            return
+
+        if self._is_processing:
+            return
+
+        async def process() -> None:
+            try:
+                await self._unsafe_process()
+            finally:
+                self._is_processing = False
+
+        self._is_processing = True
+        self._hs.run_as_background_process("user_directory.notify_new_event", process)
+
+    async def handle_local_profile_change(
+        self, user_id: str, profile: ProfileInfo
+    ) -> None:
+        """Called to update index of our local user profiles when they change
+        irrespective of any rooms the user may be in.
+        """
+        # FIXME(https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3714): We should
+        # probably do this in the same worker as all the other changes.
+
+        if await self.store.should_include_local_user_in_dir(user_id):
+            await self.store.update_profile_in_user_dir(
+                user_id, profile.display_name, profile.avatar_url
+            )
+
+    async def handle_local_user_deactivated(self, user_id: str) -> None:
+        """Called when a user ID is deactivated"""
+        # FIXME(https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3714): We should
+        # probably do this in the same worker as all the other changes.
+        await self.store.remove_from_user_dir(user_id)
+
+    async def _unsafe_process(self) -> None:
+        # If self.pos is None then means we haven't fetched it from DB
+        if self.pos is None:
+            self.pos = await self.store.get_user_directory_stream_pos()
+
+            # If still None then the initial background update hasn't happened yet.
+            if self.pos is None:
+                return None
+
+            room_max_stream_ordering = self.store.get_room_max_stream_ordering()
+            if self.pos > room_max_stream_ordering:
+                # apparently, we've processed more events than exist in the database!
+                # this can happen if events are removed with history purge or similar.
+                logger.warning(
+                    "Event stream ordering appears to have gone backwards (%i -> %i): "
+                    "rewinding user directory processor",
+                    self.pos,
+                    room_max_stream_ordering,
+                )
+                self.pos = room_max_stream_ordering
+
+        # Loop round handling deltas until we're up to date
+        while True:
+            with Measure(
+                self.clock, name="user_dir_delta", server_name=self.server_name
+            ):
+                room_max_stream_ordering = self.store.get_room_max_stream_ordering()
+                if self.pos == room_max_stream_ordering:
+                    return
+
+                logger.debug(
+                    "Processing user stats %s->%s", self.pos, room_max_stream_ordering
+                )
+                (
+                    max_pos,
+                    deltas,
+                ) = await self._storage_controllers.state.get_current_state_deltas(
+                    self.pos, room_max_stream_ordering
+                )
+
+                logger.debug("Handling %d state deltas", len(deltas))
+                await self._handle_deltas(deltas)
+
+                self.pos = max_pos
+
+                # Expose current event processing position to prometheus
+                synapse.metrics.event_processing_positions.labels(
+                    name="user_dir", **{SERVER_NAME_LABEL: self.server_name}
+                ).set(max_pos)
+
+                await self.store.update_user_directory_stream_pos(max_pos)
+
+    async def _handle_deltas(self, deltas: list[StateDelta]) -> None:
+        """Called with the state deltas to process"""
+        for delta in deltas:
+            logger.debug(
+                "Handling: %r %r, %s", delta.event_type, delta.state_key, delta.event_id
+            )
+
+            # For join rule and visibility changes we need to check if the room
+            # may have become public or not and add/remove the users in said room
+            if delta.event_type in (
+                EventTypes.RoomHistoryVisibility,
+                EventTypes.JoinRules,
+            ):
+                await self._handle_room_publicity_change(
+                    delta.room_id, delta.prev_event_id, delta.event_id, delta.event_type
+                )
+            elif delta.event_type == EventTypes.Member:
+                await self._handle_room_membership_event(
+                    delta.room_id,
+                    delta.prev_event_id,
+                    delta.event_id,
+                    delta.state_key,
+                )
+            else:
+                logger.debug("Ignoring irrelevant type: %r", delta.event_type)
+
+    async def _handle_room_publicity_change(
+        self,
+        room_id: str,
+        prev_event_id: str | None,
+        event_id: str | None,
+        typ: str,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Handle a room having potentially changed from/to world_readable/publicly
+        joinable.
+
+        Args:
+            room_id: The ID of the room which changed.
+            prev_event_id: The previous event before the state change
+            event_id: The new event after the state change
+            typ: Type of the event
+        """
+        logger.debug("Handling change for %s: %s", typ, room_id)
+
+        if typ == EventTypes.RoomHistoryVisibility:
+            publicness = await self._get_key_change(
+                prev_event_id,
+                event_id,
+                key_name="history_visibility",
+                public_value=HistoryVisibility.WORLD_READABLE,
+            )
+        elif typ == EventTypes.JoinRules:
+            publicness = await self._get_key_change(
+                prev_event_id,
+                event_id,
+                key_name="join_rule",
+                public_value=JoinRules.PUBLIC,
+            )
+        else:
+            raise Exception("Invalid event type")
+        if publicness is MatchChange.no_change:
+            logger.debug("No change")
+            return
+
+        # There's been a change to or from being world readable.
+
+        is_public = await self.store.is_room_world_readable_or_publicly_joinable(
+            room_id
+        )
+
+        logger.debug("Publicness change: %r, is_public: %r", publicness, is_public)
+
+        if publicness is MatchChange.now_true and not is_public:
+            # If we became world readable but room isn't currently public then
+            # we ignore the change
+            return
+        elif publicness is MatchChange.now_false and is_public:
+            # If we stopped being world readable but are still public,
+            # ignore the change
+            return
+
+        users_in_room = await self.store.get_users_in_room(room_id)
+
+        # Remove every user from the sharing tables for that room.
+        for user_id in users_in_room:
+            await self.store.remove_user_who_share_room(user_id, room_id)
+
+        # Then, re-add all remote users and some local users to the tables.
+        # NOTE: this is not the most efficient method, as _track_user_joined_room sets
+        # up local_user -> other_user and other_user_whos_local -> local_user,
+        # which when ran over an entire room, will result in the same values
+        # being added multiple times. The batching upserts shouldn't make this
+        # too bad, though.
+        for user_id in users_in_room:
+            if not self.is_mine_id(
+                user_id
+            ) or await self.store.should_include_local_user_in_dir(user_id):
+                await self._track_user_joined_room(room_id, user_id)
+
+    async def _handle_room_membership_event(
+        self,
+        room_id: str,
+        prev_event_id: str | None,
+        event_id: str | None,
+        state_key: str,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Process a single room membershp event.
+
+        We have to do two things:
+
+        1. Update the room-sharing tables.
+           This applies to remote users and non-excluded local users.
+        2. Update the user_directory and user_directory_search tables.
+           This applies to remote users only, because we only become aware of
+           the (and any profile changes) by listening to these events.
+           The rest of the application knows exactly when local users are
+           created or their profile changed---it will directly call methods
+           on this class.
+        """
+        joined = await self._get_key_change(
+            prev_event_id,
+            event_id,
+            key_name="membership",
+            public_value=Membership.JOIN,
+        )
+
+        # Both cases ignore excluded local users, so start by discarding them.
+        is_remote = not self.is_mine_id(state_key)
+        if not is_remote and not await self.store.should_include_local_user_in_dir(
+            state_key
+        ):
+            return
+
+        if joined is MatchChange.now_false:
+            # Need to check if the server left the room entirely, if so
+            # we might need to remove all the users in that room
+            is_in_room = await self.store.is_host_joined(room_id, self.server_name)
+            if not is_in_room:
+                logger.debug("Server left room: %r", room_id)
+                # Fetch all the users that we marked as being in user
+                # directory due to being in the room and then check if
+                # need to remove those users or not
+                user_ids = await self.store.get_users_in_dir_due_to_room(room_id)
+
+                for user_id in user_ids:
+                    await self._handle_remove_user(room_id, user_id)
+            else:
+                logger.debug("Server is still in room: %r", room_id)
+                await self._handle_remove_user(room_id, state_key)
+        elif joined is MatchChange.no_change:
+            # Handle any profile changes for remote users.
+            # (For local users the rest of the application calls
+            # `handle_local_profile_change`.)
+            # Only process if there is an event_id.
+            if is_remote and event_id is not None:
+                await self._handle_possible_remote_profile_change(
+                    state_key, room_id, prev_event_id, event_id
+                )
+        elif joined is MatchChange.now_true:  # The user joined
+            # This may be the first time we've seen a remote user. If
+            # so, ensure we have a directory entry for them. (For local users,
+            # the rest of the application calls `handle_local_profile_change`.)
+            # Only process if there is an event_id.
+            if is_remote and event_id is not None:
+                await self._handle_possible_remote_profile_change(
+                    state_key, room_id, None, event_id
+                )
+            await self._track_user_joined_room(room_id, state_key)
+
+    async def _track_user_joined_room(self, room_id: str, joining_user_id: str) -> None:
+        """Someone's just joined a room. Update `users_in_public_rooms` or
+        `users_who_share_private_rooms` as appropriate.
+
+        The caller is responsible for ensuring that the given user should be
+        included in the user directory.
+        """
+        is_public = await self.store.is_room_world_readable_or_publicly_joinable(
+            room_id
+        )
+        if is_public:
+            await self.store.add_users_in_public_rooms(room_id, (joining_user_id,))
+        else:
+            users_in_room = await self.store.get_users_in_room(room_id)
+            other_users_in_room = [
+                other
+                for other in users_in_room
+                if other != joining_user_id
+                and (
+                    # We can't apply any special rules to remote users so
+                    # they're always included
+                    not self.is_mine_id(other)
+                    # Check the special rules whether the local user should be
+                    # included in the user directory
+                    or await self.store.should_include_local_user_in_dir(other)
+                )
+            ]
+            updates_to_users_who_share_rooms: set[tuple[str, str]] = set()
+
+            # First, if the joining user is our local user then we need an
+            # update for every other user in the room.
+            if self.is_mine_id(joining_user_id):
+                for other_user_id in other_users_in_room:
+                    updates_to_users_who_share_rooms.add(
+                        (joining_user_id, other_user_id)
+                    )
+
+            # Next, we need an update for every other local user in the room
+            # that they now share a room with the joining user.
+            for other_user_id in other_users_in_room:
+                if self.is_mine_id(other_user_id):
+                    updates_to_users_who_share_rooms.add(
+                        (other_user_id, joining_user_id)
+                    )
+
+            if updates_to_users_who_share_rooms:
+                await self.store.add_users_who_share_private_room(
+                    room_id, updates_to_users_who_share_rooms
+                )
+
+    async def _handle_remove_user(self, room_id: str, user_id: str) -> None:
+        """Called when when someone leaves a room. The user may be local or remote.
+
+        (If the person who left was the last local user in this room, the server
+        is no longer in the room. We call this function to forget that the remaining
+        remote users are in the room, even though they haven't left. So the name is
+        a little misleading!)
+
+        Args:
+            room_id: The room ID that user left or stopped being public that
+            user_id
+        """
+        logger.debug("Removing user %r from room %r", user_id, room_id)
+
+        # Remove user from sharing tables
+        await self.store.remove_user_who_share_room(user_id, room_id)
+
+        # Additionally, if they're a remote user and we're no longer joined
+        # to any rooms they're in, remove them from the user directory.
+        if not self.is_mine_id(user_id):
+            rooms_user_is_in = await self.store.get_user_dir_rooms_user_is_in(user_id)
+
+            if len(rooms_user_is_in) == 0:
+                logger.debug("Removing user %r from directory", user_id)
+                await self.store.remove_from_user_dir(user_id)
+
+    async def _handle_possible_remote_profile_change(
+        self,
+        user_id: str,
+        room_id: str,
+        prev_event_id: str | None,
+        event_id: str,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Check member event changes for any profile changes and update the
+        database if there are. This is intended for remote users only. The caller
+        is responsible for checking that the given user is remote.
+        """
+
+        if not prev_event_id:
+            # If we don't have an older event to fall back on, just fetch the same
+            # event itself.
+            prev_event_id = event_id
+
+        prev_event = await self.store.get_event(prev_event_id, allow_none=True)
+        event = await self.store.get_event(event_id, allow_none=True)
+
+        if not prev_event or not event:
+            return
+
+        if event.membership != Membership.JOIN:
+            return
+
+        is_public = await self.store.is_room_world_readable_or_publicly_joinable(
+            room_id
+        )
+        if not is_public:
+            # Don't collect user profiles from private rooms as they are not guaranteed
+            # to be the same as the user's global profile.
+            now_ts = self.clock.time_msec()
+            await self.store.set_remote_user_profile_in_user_dir_stale(
+                user_id,
+                next_try_at_ms=now_ts + USER_DIRECTORY_STALE_REFRESH_TIME.as_millis(),
+                retry_counter=0,
+            )
+            # Schedule a wake-up to refresh the user directory for this server.
+            # We intentionally wake up this server directly because we don't want
+            # other servers ahead of it in the queue to get in the way of updating
+            # the profile if the server only just sent us an event.
+            self.clock.call_later(
+                USER_DIRECTORY_STALE_REFRESH_TIME + Duration(seconds=1),
+                self.kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process_for_remote_server,
+                UserID.from_string(user_id).domain,
+            )
+            # Schedule a wake-up to handle any backoffs that may occur in the future.
+            self.clock.call_later(
+                USER_DIRECTORY_STALE_REFRESH_TIME * 2 + Duration(seconds=1),
+                self.kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process,
+            )
+            return
+
+        prev_name = prev_event.content.get("displayname")
+        new_name = event.content.get("displayname")
+        # If the new name is an unexpected form, replace with None.
+        if not isinstance(new_name, str):
+            new_name = None
+
+        prev_avatar = prev_event.content.get("avatar_url")
+        new_avatar = event.content.get("avatar_url")
+        # If the new avatar is an unexpected form, replace with None.
+        if not isinstance(new_avatar, str):
+            new_avatar = None
+
+        if (
+            prev_name != new_name
+            or prev_avatar != new_avatar
+            or prev_event_id == event_id
+        ):
+            # Only update if something has changed, or we didn't have a previous event
+            # in the first place.
+            await self.store.update_profile_in_user_dir(user_id, new_name, new_avatar)
+
+    def kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process(self) -> None:
+        """Called when there may be remote users with stale profiles to be refreshed"""
+        if not self.update_user_directory:
+            return
+
+        if self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles:
+            return
+
+        if self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later:
+            if self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later.active():
+                self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later.cancel()
+            self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later = None
+
+        async def process() -> None:
+            try:
+                await self._unsafe_refresh_remote_profiles()
+            finally:
+                self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles = False
+
+        self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles = True
+        self._hs.run_as_background_process(
+            "user_directory.refresh_remote_profiles", process
+        )
+
+    async def _unsafe_refresh_remote_profiles(self) -> None:
+        limit = MAX_SERVERS_TO_REFRESH_PROFILES_FOR_IN_ONE_GO - len(
+            self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles_for_servers
+        )
+        if limit <= 0:
+            # nothing to do: already refreshing the maximum number of servers
+            # at once.
+            # Come back later.
+            self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later = self.clock.call_later(
+                INTERVAL_TO_ADD_MORE_SERVERS_TO_REFRESH_PROFILES,
+                self.kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process,
+            )
+            return
+
+        servers_to_refresh = (
+            await self.store.get_remote_servers_with_profiles_to_refresh(
+                now_ts=self.clock.time_msec(), limit=limit
+            )
+        )
+
+        if not servers_to_refresh:
+            # Do we have any backing-off servers that we should try again
+            # for eventually?
+            # By setting `now` is a point in the far future, we can ask for
+            # which server/user is next to be refreshed, even though it is
+            # not actually refreshable *now*.
+            end_of_time = 1 << 62
+            backing_off_servers = (
+                await self.store.get_remote_servers_with_profiles_to_refresh(
+                    now_ts=end_of_time, limit=1
+                )
+            )
+            if backing_off_servers:
+                # Find out when the next user is refreshable and schedule a
+                # refresh then.
+                backing_off_server_name = backing_off_servers[0]
+                users = await self.store.get_remote_users_to_refresh_on_server(
+                    backing_off_server_name, now_ts=end_of_time, limit=1
+                )
+                if not users:
+                    return
+                _, _, next_try_at_ts = users[0]
+                delay = Duration(
+                    milliseconds=next_try_at_ts - self.clock.time_msec()
+                ) + Duration(seconds=2)
+                self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later = self.clock.call_later(
+                    delay,
+                    self.kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process,
+                )
+
+            return
+
+        for server_to_refresh in servers_to_refresh:
+            self.kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process_for_remote_server(
+                server_to_refresh
+            )
+
+        self._refresh_remote_profiles_call_later = self.clock.call_later(
+            INTERVAL_TO_ADD_MORE_SERVERS_TO_REFRESH_PROFILES,
+            self.kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process,
+        )
+
+    def kick_off_remote_profile_refresh_process_for_remote_server(
+        self, server_name: str
+    ) -> None:
+        """Called when there may be remote users with stale profiles to be refreshed
+        on the given server."""
+        if not self.update_user_directory:
+            return
+
+        if server_name in self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles_for_servers:
+            return
+
+        async def process() -> None:
+            try:
+                await self._unsafe_refresh_remote_profiles_for_remote_server(
+                    server_name
+                )
+            finally:
+                self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles_for_servers.remove(server_name)
+
+        self._is_refreshing_remote_profiles_for_servers.add(server_name)
+        self._hs.run_as_background_process(
+            "user_directory.refresh_remote_profiles_for_remote_server",
+            process,
+        )
+
+    async def _unsafe_refresh_remote_profiles_for_remote_server(
+        self, server_name: str
+    ) -> None:
+        logger.info("Refreshing profiles in user directory for %s", server_name)
+
+        while True:
+            # Get a handful of users to process.
+            next_batch = await self.store.get_remote_users_to_refresh_on_server(
+                server_name, now_ts=self.clock.time_msec(), limit=10
+            )
+            if not next_batch:
+                # Finished for now
+                return
+
+            for user_id, retry_counter, _ in next_batch:
+                # Request the profile of the user.
+                try:
+                    profile = await self._hs.get_profile_handler().get_profile(
+                        user_id, ignore_backoff=False
+                    )
+                except NotRetryingDestination as e:
+                    logger.info(
+                        "Failed to refresh profile for %r because the destination is undergoing backoff",
+                        user_id,
+                    )
+                    # As a special-case, we back off until the destination is no longer
+                    # backed off from.
+                    await self.store.set_remote_user_profile_in_user_dir_stale(
+                        user_id,
+                        e.retry_last_ts + e.retry_interval,
+                        retry_counter=retry_counter + 1,
+                    )
+                    continue
+                except SynapseError as e:
+                    if e.code == HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND and e.errcode == Codes.NOT_FOUND:
+                        # The profile doesn't exist.
+                        # TODO Does this mean we should clear it from our user
+                        #      directory?
+                        await self.store.clear_remote_user_profile_in_user_dir_stale(
+                            user_id
+                        )
+                        logger.warning(
+                            "Refresh of remote profile %r: not found (%r)",
+                            user_id,
+                            e.msg,
+                        )
+                        continue
+
+                    logger.warning(
+                        "Failed to refresh profile for %r because %r", user_id, e
+                    )
+                    await self.store.set_remote_user_profile_in_user_dir_stale(
+                        user_id,
+                        calculate_time_of_next_retry(
+                            self.clock.time_msec(), retry_counter + 1
+                        ),
+                        retry_counter=retry_counter + 1,
+                    )
+                    continue
+                except Exception:
+                    logger.exception(
+                        "Failed to refresh profile for %r due to unhandled exception",
+                        user_id,
+                    )
+                    await self.store.set_remote_user_profile_in_user_dir_stale(
+                        user_id,
+                        calculate_time_of_next_retry(
+                            self.clock.time_msec(), retry_counter + 1
+                        ),
+                        retry_counter=retry_counter + 1,
+                    )
+                    continue
+
+                await self.store.update_profile_in_user_dir(
+                    user_id,
+                    display_name=non_null_str_or_none(
+                        profile.get(ProfileFields.DISPLAYNAME)
+                    ),
+                    avatar_url=non_null_str_or_none(
+                        profile.get(ProfileFields.AVATAR_URL)
+                    ),
+                )