Merge pull request #2027 from matrix-org/rav/logcontext_leaks

A few fixes to logcontext things

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/app/synchrotron.py b/synapse/app/synchrotron.py

index 449fac771b..a68bb873fe 100644
--- a/synapse/app/synchrotron.py
+++ b/synapse/app/synchrotron.py
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ from synapse.storage.presence import PresenceStore, UserPresenceState
 from synapse.storage.roommember import RoomMemberStore
 from synapse.util.async import sleep
 from synapse.util.httpresourcetree import create_resource_tree
-from synapse.util.logcontext import LoggingContext, preserve_fn
+from synapse.util.logcontext import LoggingContext, preserve_fn, \
+    PreserveLoggingContext
 from synapse.util.manhole import manhole
 from synapse.util.rlimit import change_resource_limit
 from synapse.util.stringutils import random_string
@@ -496,7 +497,11 @@ def start(config_options):
     ss.start_listening(config.worker_listeners)
 
     def run():
-        with LoggingContext("run"):
+        # make sure that we run the reactor with the sentinel log context,
+        # otherwise other PreserveLoggingContext instances will get confused
+        # and complain when they see the logcontext arbitrarily swapping
+        # between the sentinel and `run` logcontexts.
+        with PreserveLoggingContext():
             logger.info("Running")
             change_resource_limit(config.soft_file_limit)
             if config.gc_thresholds: