From e6797e004f4383ddbfc215c8ad8a61964d2ef2c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Velten <matmaul@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:59:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow per-room profile to be used for server notice user
 (#8799)

This applies even if the feature is disabled at the server level with `allow_per_room_profiles`.
The server notice not being a real user it doesn't have an user profile.
---
 changelog.d/8799.bugfix         |  1 +
 synapse/handlers/room_member.py | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/8799.bugfix

diff --git a/changelog.d/8799.bugfix b/changelog.d/8799.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a7e6b3556d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/8799.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow per-room profiles to be used for the server notice user.
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/room_member.py b/synapse/handlers/room_member.py
index 5a8120db57..6af59b3f70 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/room_member.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/room_member.py
@@ -350,7 +350,15 @@ class RoomMemberHandler(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
             # later on.
             content = dict(content)
 
-        if not self.allow_per_room_profiles or requester.shadow_banned:
+        # allow the server notices mxid to set room-level profile
+        is_requester_server_notices_user = (
+            self._server_notices_mxid is not None
+            and requester.user.to_string() == self._server_notices_mxid
+        )
+
+        if (
+            not self.allow_per_room_profiles and not is_requester_server_notices_user
+        ) or requester.shadow_banned:
             # Strip profile data, knowing that new profile data will be added to the
             # event's content in event_creation_handler.create_event() using the target's
             # global profile.