Improve exception handling for background processes

There were a bunch of places where we fire off a process to happen in the
background, but don't have any exception handling on it - instead relying on
the unhandled error being logged when the relevent deferred gets
garbage-collected.

This is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons:
 - logging on garbage collection is best-effort and may happen some time after
   the error, if at all
 - it can be hard to figure out where the error actually happened.
 - it is logged as a scary CRITICAL error which (a) I always forget to grep for
   and (b) it's not really CRITICAL if a background process we don't care about
   fails.

So this is an attempt to add exception handling to everything we fire off into
the background.
This commit is contained in:
Richard van der Hoff 2018-04-27 11:07:40 +01:00
parent 0ced8b5b47
commit 9255a6cb17
20 changed files with 331 additions and 233 deletions

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@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ from synapse.storage.engines import create_engine
from synapse.storage.user_directory import UserDirectoryStore
from synapse.util.caches.stream_change_cache import StreamChangeCache
from synapse.util.httpresourcetree import create_resource_tree
from synapse.util.logcontext import LoggingContext, preserve_fn
from synapse.util.logcontext import LoggingContext, run_in_background
from synapse.util.manhole import manhole
from synapse.util.versionstring import get_version_string
from twisted.internet import reactor
from twisted.internet import reactor, defer
from twisted.web.resource import NoResource
logger = logging.getLogger("synapse.app.user_dir")
@ -164,7 +164,14 @@ class UserDirectoryReplicationHandler(ReplicationClientHandler):
stream_name, token, rows
)
if stream_name == "current_state_deltas":
preserve_fn(self.user_directory.notify_new_event)()
run_in_background(self._notify_directory)
@defer.inlineCallbacks
def _notify_directory(self):
try:
yield self.user_directory.notify_new_event()
except Exception:
logger.exception("Error notifiying user directory of state update")
def start(config_options):