Middle-End protocol hardening

- Secure framing / hot-path fix: enforced a single length + padding contract across the framing layer. Replaced legacy runtime `len % 4` recovery with strict validation to eliminate undefined behavior paths.

- ME RPC aligned with C reference contract: handshake now includes `flags + sender_pid + peer_pid`. Added negotiated CRC mode (CRC32 / CRC32C) and applied the negotiated mode consistently in read/write paths.

- Sequence fail-fast semantics: immediate connection termination on first sequence mismatch with dedicated counter increment.

- Keepalive reworked to RPC ping/pong: removed raw CBC keepalive frames. Introduced stale ping tracker with proper timeout accounting.

- Route/backpressure observability improvements: increased per-connection route queue to 4096. Added `RouteResult` with explicit failure reasons (NoConn, ChannelClosed, QueueFull) and per-reason counters.

- Direct-DC secure mode-gate relaxation: removed TLS/secure conflict in Direct-DC handshake path.

src/transport/middle_proxy/reader.rs

@@ -10,30 +10,33 @@ use tokio::sync::{Mutex, mpsc};
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 use tracing::{debug, trace, warn};
 
-use crate::crypto::{AesCbc, crc32};
+use crate::crypto::AesCbc;
 use crate::error::{ProxyError, Result};
 use crate::protocol::constants::*;
+use crate::stats::Stats;
 
-use super::codec::WriterCommand;
+use super::codec::{RpcChecksumMode, WriterCommand, rpc_crc};
+use super::registry::RouteResult;
 use super::{ConnRegistry, MeResponse};
 
 pub(crate) async fn reader_loop(
     mut rd: tokio::io::ReadHalf<TcpStream>,
     dk: [u8; 32],
     mut div: [u8; 16],
+    crc_mode: RpcChecksumMode,
     reg: Arc<ConnRegistry>,
     enc_leftover: BytesMut,
     mut dec: BytesMut,
     tx: mpsc::Sender<WriterCommand>,
     ping_tracker: Arc<Mutex<HashMap<i64, (Instant, u64)>>>,
     rtt_stats: Arc<Mutex<HashMap<u64, (f64, f64)>>>,
+    stats: Arc<Stats>,
     _writer_id: u64,
     degraded: Arc<AtomicBool>,
     cancel: CancellationToken,
 ) -> Result<()> {
     let mut raw = enc_leftover;
     let mut expected_seq: i32 = 0;
-    let mut seq_mismatch = 0u32;
 
     loop {
         let mut tmp = [0u8; 16_384];
@@ -79,8 +82,9 @@ pub(crate) async fn reader_loop(
             let frame = dec.split_to(fl);
             let pe = fl - 4;
             let ec = u32::from_le_bytes(frame[pe..pe + 4].try_into().unwrap());
-            let actual_crc = crc32(&frame[..pe]);
+            let actual_crc = rpc_crc(crc_mode, &frame[..pe]);
             if actual_crc != ec {
+                stats.increment_me_crc_mismatch();
                 warn!(
                     frame_len = fl,
                     expected_crc = format_args!("0x{ec:08x}"),
@@ -92,15 +96,14 @@ pub(crate) async fn reader_loop(
 
             let seq_no = i32::from_le_bytes(frame[4..8].try_into().unwrap());
             if seq_no != expected_seq {
+                stats.increment_me_seq_mismatch();
                 warn!(seq_no, expected = expected_seq, "ME RPC seq mismatch");
-                seq_mismatch += 1;
-                if seq_mismatch > 10 {
-                    return Err(ProxyError::Proxy("Too many seq mismatches".into()));
-                }
-                expected_seq = seq_no.wrapping_add(1);
-            } else {
-                expected_seq = expected_seq.wrapping_add(1);
+                return Err(ProxyError::SeqNoMismatch {
+                    expected: expected_seq,
+                    got: seq_no,
+                });
             }
+            expected_seq = expected_seq.wrapping_add(1);
 
             let payload = &frame[8..pe];
             if payload.len() < 4 {
@@ -117,7 +120,13 @@ pub(crate) async fn reader_loop(
                 trace!(cid, flags, len = data.len(), "RPC_PROXY_ANS");
 
                 let routed = reg.route(cid, MeResponse::Data { flags, data }).await;
-                if !routed {
+                if !matches!(routed, RouteResult::Routed) {
+                    match routed {
+                        RouteResult::NoConn => stats.increment_me_route_drop_no_conn(),
+                        RouteResult::ChannelClosed => stats.increment_me_route_drop_channel_closed(),
+                        RouteResult::QueueFull => stats.increment_me_route_drop_queue_full(),
+                        RouteResult::Routed => {}
+                    }
                     reg.unregister(cid).await;
                     send_close_conn(&tx, cid).await;
                 }
@@ -127,7 +136,13 @@ pub(crate) async fn reader_loop(
                 trace!(cid, cfm, "RPC_SIMPLE_ACK");
 
                 let routed = reg.route(cid, MeResponse::Ack(cfm)).await;
-                if !routed {
+                if !matches!(routed, RouteResult::Routed) {
+                    match routed {
+                        RouteResult::NoConn => stats.increment_me_route_drop_no_conn(),
+                        RouteResult::ChannelClosed => stats.increment_me_route_drop_channel_closed(),
+                        RouteResult::QueueFull => stats.increment_me_route_drop_queue_full(),
+                        RouteResult::Routed => {}
+                    }
                     reg.unregister(cid).await;
                     send_close_conn(&tx, cid).await;
                 }
@@ -153,6 +168,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn reader_loop(
                 }
             } else if pt == RPC_PONG_U32 && body.len() >= 8 {
                 let ping_id = i64::from_le_bytes(body[0..8].try_into().unwrap());
+                stats.increment_me_keepalive_pong();
                 if let Some((sent, wid)) = {
                     let mut guard = ping_tracker.lock().await;
                     guard.remove(&ping_id)