From f76d407ef3d2f6c18a568eff965e12e794105a7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 09:17:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix dropped logcontexts during high outbound traffic. (#5277)

Fixes #5271.
---
 changelog.d/5277.bugfix |  1 +
 synapse/app/_base.py    | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/5277.bugfix

diff --git a/changelog.d/5277.bugfix b/changelog.d/5277.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..371aa2e7fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/5277.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix dropped logcontexts during high outbound traffic.
diff --git a/synapse/app/_base.py b/synapse/app/_base.py
index 08199a5e8d..8cc990399f 100644
--- a/synapse/app/_base.py
+++ b/synapse/app/_base.py
@@ -344,15 +344,21 @@ class _LimitedHostnameResolver(object):
 
     def resolveHostName(self, resolutionReceiver, hostName, portNumber=0,
                         addressTypes=None, transportSemantics='TCP'):
-        # Note this is happening deep within the reactor, so we don't need to
-        # worry about log contexts.
-
         # We need this function to return `resolutionReceiver` so we do all the
         # actual logic involving deferreds in a separate function.
-        self._resolve(
-            resolutionReceiver, hostName, portNumber,
-            addressTypes, transportSemantics,
-        )
+
+        # even though this is happening within the depths of twisted, we need to drop
+        # our logcontext before starting _resolve, otherwise: (a) _resolve will drop
+        # the logcontext if it returns an incomplete deferred; (b) _resolve will
+        # call the resolutionReceiver *with* a logcontext, which it won't be expecting.
+        with PreserveLoggingContext():
+            self._resolve(
+                resolutionReceiver,
+                hostName,
+                portNumber,
+                addressTypes,
+                transportSemantics,
+            )
 
         return resolutionReceiver
 
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