1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/state/host.rs b/src/state/host.rs
index ac36171..e7fc61a 100644
--- a/src/state/host.rs
+++ b/src/state/host.rs
@@ -99,14 +99,20 @@ impl AppState {
     /// so). Every peer syncs anew. Nothing while a rejoin runs, or if the document doesn't
     /// hold `root`; nor if `root` is an epoch's root, or nothing would be kept, which no
     /// rule can mean (logged as an error). A drop taking much (`BIG_DROP`) waits for a
-    /// second member to say so (`peer` the first, `why` its rules' reason): its rules and
-    /// one peer's word might both be off, the swarm's not.
+    /// second member to say so (`peer` the first, `why` its rules' reason), where it has
+    /// another neighbour: its rules and one peer's word might both be off, the swarm's
+    /// not. Two members colluding pass it; it guards against one.
     pub(crate) async fn drop_taken(&self, root: ChangeHash, peer: &str, why: &str) {
         /// Changes a drop takes, at most, on one peer's word: more, or more than a tenth
         /// of the document (past `SMALL_DROP`), wait for another's.
         const BIG_DROP: usize = 100;
         const SMALL_DROP: usize = 10;
         let own = self.remake.own_actors();
+        // Another member to hear it from: a node with one neighbour, the one telling, has
+        // only its word (a swarm of two, a leaf), and waiting would hold the drop for good.
+        let another = crate::swarm::topology::our_neighbours(self)
+            .iter()
+            .any(|other| other != peer);
         let state = self.clone();
         let peer = peer.to_owned();
         let why = why.to_owned();
@@ -136,8 +142,9 @@ impl AppState {
                 error!(change = %root, "Dropping a change would leave nothing; kept it");
                 return None;
             }
-            if tainted.len() > BIG_DROP
-                || (tainted.len() > SMALL_DROP && tainted.len() * 10 > changes.len())
+            if another
+                && (tainted.len() > BIG_DROP
+                    || (tainted.len() > SMALL_DROP && tainted.len() * 10 > changes.len()))
             {
                 use crate::locks::MutexExt;
                 let mut screening = state.screening.lock_or_recover();