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commit 248cbc2d2207a0bc3374cd18a17cda9d1b8a8ef1
parent 72484a4953d744754b3b6b025242ef668e3f017a
Author: George Kadianakis <desnacked@riseup.net>
Date:   Mon,  7 Sep 2020 13:17:41 +0300

statistics: Properly count all rendezvous cells (avoid undercounting).

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.

Diffstat:
Achanges/bug40117 | 5+++++
Msrc/feature/rend/rendmid.c | 6++++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/changes/bug40117 b/changes/bug40117 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services): + - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total onion + service traffic, by only counting rendezvous traffic originating from + services and ignoring any traffic originating from clients. Fixes bug + 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. diff --git a/src/feature/rend/rendmid.c b/src/feature/rend/rendmid.c @@ -333,10 +333,12 @@ rend_mid_rendezvous(or_circuit_t *circ, const uint8_t *request, goto err; } - /* Statistics: Mark this circuit as an RP circuit so that we collect - stats from it. */ + /* Statistics: Mark circuits as RP circuits */ if (options->HiddenServiceStatistics) { + /* `circ` is the RP <-> service circuit */ circ->circuit_carries_hs_traffic_stats = 1; + /* `rend_circ` is the client <-> RP circuit */ + rend_circ->circuit_carries_hs_traffic_stats = 1; } /* Send the RENDEZVOUS2 cell to the client. */