From 760446c0879fd5e7ad82b905df1815874411fea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 14:26:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Null-guard ELS from null summaryMembers (#7744)

---
 src/components/views/elements/EventListSummary.tsx | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/components/views/elements/EventListSummary.tsx b/src/components/views/elements/EventListSummary.tsx
index e6041b0fffc..10e18623fbf 100644
--- a/src/components/views/elements/EventListSummary.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/elements/EventListSummary.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import React, { ReactNode, useEffect } from "react";
 import { uniqBy } from "lodash";
 import { MatrixEvent } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/event";
 import { RoomMember } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/room-member";
+import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/logger";
 
 import MemberAvatar from '../avatars/MemberAvatar';
 import { _t } from '../../../languageHandler';
@@ -81,7 +82,14 @@ const EventListSummary: React.FC<IProps> = ({
             { children }
         </React.Fragment>;
     } else {
-        const uniqueMembers = uniqBy(summaryMembers, member => member.getMxcAvatarUrl());
+        const uniqueMembers = uniqBy(summaryMembers.filter(member => {
+            if (!member?.getMxcAvatarUrl) {
+                logger.error("EventListSummary given null summaryMember, termites may be afoot eating event senders",
+                    summaryMembers);
+                return false;
+            }
+            return true;
+        }), member => member.getMxcAvatarUrl());
         const avatars = uniqueMembers.map((m) => <MemberAvatar key={m.userId} member={m} width={14} height={14} />);
         body = (
             <div className="mx_EventTile_line">