Fix stacktrace mangling in `patch_inline_callbacks` (#7554)

`Failure()` is more cunning than `Failure(e)`.

changelog.d/7554.misc

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix some test code to not mangle stacktraces, to make it easier to debug errors.

synapse/util/patch_inline_callbacks.py

@@ -186,10 +186,15 @@ def _check_yield_points(f: Callable, changes: List[str]):
                     )
                     raise Exception(err)
 
+            # the wrapped function yielded a Deferred: yield it back up to the parent
+            # inlineCallbacks().
             try:
                 result = yield d
-            except Exception as e:
+            except Exception:
-                result = Failure(e)
+                # this will fish an earlier Failure out of the stack where possible, and
+                # thus is preferable to passing in an exeception to the Failure
+                # constructor, since it results in less stack-mangling.
+                result = Failure()
 
             if current_context() != expected_context: