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    statistics: Properly count all rendezvous cells (avoid undercounting). · 85a1e6c6
    George Kadianakis authored
    tl;dr We were not counting cells flying from the client to the service, but we
    were counting cells flying from the service to the client.
    
    When a rendezvous cell arrives from the client to the RP, the RP forwards it to
    the service.
    
    For this to happen, the cell first passes through command_process_relay_cell()
    which normally does the statistics counting. However because the `rend_circ`
    circuit was not flagged with `circuit_carries_hs_traffic_stats` in
    rend_mid_rendezvous(), the cell is not counted there.
    
    Then the cell goes to circuit_receive_relay_cell() which has a special code
    block based on `rend_splice` specifically for rendezvous cells, and the cell
    gets directly passed to `rend_circ` via a direct call to
    circuit_receive_relay_cell(). The cell never passes through
    command_process_relay_cell() ever again and hence is never counted by our
    rephist module.
    
    The fix here is to flag the `rend_circ` circuit with
    `circuit_carries_hs_traffic_stats` so that the cell is counted as soon as it
    hits command_process_relay_cell().
    
    Furthermore we avoid double-counting cells since the special code block of
    circuit_receive_relay_cell() makes us count rendezvous cells only as they enter
    the RP and not as they exit it.
    
    Fixes #40117.
    85a1e6c6