From f477370c0cb5b3f6bee74eb2f8209f7fdf5db9fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:04:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add paranoia exception catch in Linearizer

---
 synapse/util/async.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/synapse/util/async.py b/synapse/util/async.py
index 83875edc85..35380bf8ed 100644
--- a/synapse/util/async.py
+++ b/synapse/util/async.py
@@ -192,8 +192,11 @@ class Linearizer(object):
             logger.info(
                 "Waiting to acquire linearizer lock %r for key %r", self.name, key
             )
-            with PreserveLoggingContext():
-                yield current_defer
+            try:
+                with PreserveLoggingContext():
+                    yield current_defer
+            except:
+                logger.exception("Unexpected exception in Linearizer")
 
         logger.info("Acquired linearizer lock %r for key %r", self.name, key)