Prevent logging context going missing on federation request timeout (#10810)

In `MatrixFederationHttpClient._send_request()`, we make a HTTP request
using an `Agent`, wrap that request in a timeout and await the resulting
`Deferred`. On its own, the `Agent` performing the HTTP request
correctly stashes and restores the logging context while waiting.
The addition of the timeout introduces a path where the logging context
is not restored when execution resumes.

To address this, we wrap the timeout `Deferred` in a
`make_deferred_yieldable()` to stash the logging context and restore it
on completion of the `await`. However this is not sufficient, since by
the time we construct the timeout `Deferred`, the `Agent` has already
stashed and cleared the logging context when using
`make_deferred_yieldable()` to produce its `Deferred` for the request.

Hence, we wrap the `Agent` request in a `run_in_background()` to "fork"
and preserve the logging context so that we can stash and restore it
when `await`ing the timeout `Deferred`.

This approach is similar to the one used with `defer.gatherResults`.

Note that the code is still not fully correct. When a timeout occurs,
the request remains running in the background (existing behavior which
is nothing to do with the new call to `run_in_background`) and may
re-start the logging context after it has finished.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
index 2e9898997c..ef10ec0937 100644
--- a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
+++ b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ from synapse.http.client import (
 )
 from synapse.http.federation.matrix_federation_agent import MatrixFederationAgent
 from synapse.logging import opentracing
-from synapse.logging.context import make_deferred_yieldable
+from synapse.logging.context import make_deferred_yieldable, run_in_background
 from synapse.logging.opentracing import set_tag, start_active_span, tags
 from synapse.types import JsonDict
 from synapse.util import json_decoder
@@ -553,20 +553,29 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
                         with Measure(self.clock, "outbound_request"):
                             # we don't want all the fancy cookie and redirect handling
                             # that treq.request gives: just use the raw Agent.
-                            request_deferred = self.agent.request(
+
+                            # To preserve the logging context, the timeout is treated
+                            # in a similar way to `defer.gatherResults`:
+                            # * Each logging context-preserving fork is wrapped in
+                            #   `run_in_background`. In this case there is only one,
+                            #   since the timeout fork is not logging-context aware.
+                            # * The `Deferred` that joins the forks back together is
+                            #   wrapped in `make_deferred_yieldable` to restore the
+                            #   logging context regardless of the path taken.
+                            request_deferred = run_in_background(
+                                self.agent.request,
                                 method_bytes,
                                 url_bytes,
                                 headers=Headers(headers_dict),
                                 bodyProducer=producer,
                             )
-
                             request_deferred = timeout_deferred(
                                 request_deferred,
                                 timeout=_sec_timeout,
                                 reactor=self.reactor,
                             )
 
-                            response = await request_deferred
+                            response = await make_deferred_yieldable(request_deferred)
                     except DNSLookupError as e:
                         raise RequestSendFailed(e, can_retry=retry_on_dns_fail) from e
                     except Exception as e: