Handle bad JSON data being returned from the federation API. (#9070)

changelog.d/9070.bugfix

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix `JSONDecodeError` spamming the logs when sending transactions to remote servers.

synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py

@@ -174,6 +174,16 @@ async def _handle_json_response(
         d = timeout_deferred(d, timeout=timeout_sec, reactor=reactor)
 
         body = await make_deferred_yieldable(d)
+    except ValueError as e:
+        # The JSON content was invalid.
+        logger.warning(
+            "{%s} [%s] Failed to parse JSON response - %s %s",
+            request.txn_id,
+            request.destination,
+            request.method,
+            request.uri.decode("ascii"),
+        )
+        raise RequestSendFailed(e, can_retry=False) from e
     except defer.TimeoutError as e:
         logger.warning(
             "{%s} [%s] Timed out reading response - %s %s",

tests/http/test_fedclient.py

@@ -560,4 +560,4 @@ class FederationClientTests(HomeserverTestCase):
         self.pump()
 
         f = self.failureResultOf(test_d)
-        self.assertIsInstance(f.value, ValueError)
+        self.assertIsInstance(f.value, RequestSendFailed)