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-rw-r--r--synapse/federation/transport/client.py4
-rw-r--r--synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py8
-rw-r--r--synapse/util/retryutils.py18
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/federation/transport/client.py b/synapse/federation/transport/client.py
index 5ce3f345cb..b5e4b2680e 100644
--- a/synapse/federation/transport/client.py
+++ b/synapse/federation/transport/client.py
@@ -249,8 +249,10 @@ class TransportLayerClient:
             data=json_data,
             json_data_callback=json_data_callback,
             long_retries=True,
-            backoff_on_404=True,  # If we get a 404 the other side has gone
             try_trailing_slash_on_400=True,
+            # Sending a transaction should always succeed, if it doesn't
+            # then something is wrong and we should backoff.
+            backoff_on_all_error_codes=True,
         )
 
     async def make_query(
diff --git a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
index 11342ccac8..08c7fc1631 100644
--- a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
+++ b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
         long_retries: bool = False,
         ignore_backoff: bool = False,
         backoff_on_404: bool = False,
+        backoff_on_all_error_codes: bool = False,
     ) -> IResponse:
         """
         Sends a request to the given server.
@@ -552,6 +553,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
                 and try the request anyway.
 
             backoff_on_404: Back off if we get a 404
+            backoff_on_all_error_codes: Back off if we get any error response
 
         Returns:
             Resolves with the HTTP response object on success.
@@ -594,6 +596,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
             ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
             notifier=self.hs.get_notifier(),
             replication_client=self.hs.get_replication_command_handler(),
+            backoff_on_all_error_codes=backoff_on_all_error_codes,
         )
 
         method_bytes = request.method.encode("ascii")
@@ -889,6 +892,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
         backoff_on_404: bool = False,
         try_trailing_slash_on_400: bool = False,
         parser: Literal[None] = None,
+        backoff_on_all_error_codes: bool = False,
     ) -> JsonDict:
         ...
 
@@ -906,6 +910,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
         backoff_on_404: bool = False,
         try_trailing_slash_on_400: bool = False,
         parser: Optional[ByteParser[T]] = None,
+        backoff_on_all_error_codes: bool = False,
     ) -> T:
         ...
 
@@ -922,6 +927,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
         backoff_on_404: bool = False,
         try_trailing_slash_on_400: bool = False,
         parser: Optional[ByteParser[T]] = None,
+        backoff_on_all_error_codes: bool = False,
     ) -> Union[JsonDict, T]:
         """Sends the specified json data using PUT
 
@@ -957,6 +963,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
                 enabled.
             parser: The parser to use to decode the response. Defaults to
                 parsing as JSON.
+            backoff_on_all_error_codes: Back off if we get any error response
 
         Returns:
             Succeeds when we get a 2xx HTTP response. The
@@ -990,6 +997,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
             ignore_backoff=ignore_backoff,
             long_retries=long_retries,
             timeout=timeout,
+            backoff_on_all_error_codes=backoff_on_all_error_codes,
         )
 
         if timeout is not None:
diff --git a/synapse/util/retryutils.py b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
index 27e9fc976c..9d2065372c 100644
--- a/synapse/util/retryutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter:
         backoff_on_failure: bool = True,
         notifier: Optional["Notifier"] = None,
         replication_client: Optional["ReplicationCommandHandler"] = None,
+        backoff_on_all_error_codes: bool = False,
     ):
         """Marks the destination as "down" if an exception is thrown in the
         context, except for CodeMessageException with code < 500.
@@ -147,6 +148,9 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter:
 
             backoff_on_failure: set to False if we should not increase the
                 retry interval on a failure.
+
+            backoff_on_all_error_codes: Whether we should back off on any
+                error code.
         """
         self.clock = clock
         self.store = store
@@ -156,6 +160,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter:
         self.retry_interval = retry_interval
         self.backoff_on_404 = backoff_on_404
         self.backoff_on_failure = backoff_on_failure
+        self.backoff_on_all_error_codes = backoff_on_all_error_codes
 
         self.notifier = notifier
         self.replication_client = replication_client
@@ -179,6 +184,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter:
         exc_val: Optional[BaseException],
         exc_tb: Optional[TracebackType],
     ) -> None:
+        success = exc_type is None
         valid_err_code = False
         if exc_type is None:
             valid_err_code = True
@@ -195,7 +201,9 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter:
             # won't accept our requests for at least a while.
             # 429 is us being aggressively rate limited, so lets rate limit
             # ourselves.
-            if exc_val.code == 404 and self.backoff_on_404:
+            if self.backoff_on_all_error_codes:
+                valid_err_code = False
+            elif exc_val.code == 404 and self.backoff_on_404:
                 valid_err_code = False
             elif exc_val.code in (401, 429):
                 valid_err_code = False
@@ -204,7 +212,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter:
             else:
                 valid_err_code = False
 
-        if valid_err_code:
+        if success:
             # We connected successfully.
             if not self.retry_interval:
                 return
@@ -215,6 +223,12 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter:
             self.failure_ts = None
             retry_last_ts = 0
             self.retry_interval = 0
+        elif valid_err_code:
+            # We got a potentially valid error code back. We don't reset the
+            # timers though, as the other side might actually be down anyway
+            # (e.g. some deprovisioned servers will always return a 404 or 403,
+            # and we don't want to keep resetting the retry timers for them).
+            return
         elif not self.backoff_on_failure:
             return
         else: