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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@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from twisted.internet import defer, threads
from .media_storage import FileResponder
from synapse.config._base import Config
from synapse.util.logcontext import preserve_fn
from synapse.util.logcontext import run_in_background
import logging
import os
@ -87,7 +87,12 @@ class StorageProviderWrapper(StorageProvider):
return self.backend.store_file(path, file_info)
else:
# TODO: Handle errors.
preserve_fn(self.backend.store_file)(path, file_info)
def store():
try:
return self.backend.store_file(path, file_info)
except Exception:
logger.exception("Error storing file")
run_in_background(store)
return defer.succeed(None)
def fetch(self, path, file_info):