Introduce xoshiro RNG to generate dungeon seeds (#7030)

Source/engine/random.cpp

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 #include "engine/random.hpp"
 
+#include <bit>
+#include <chrono>
 #include <cmath>
 #include <cstdint>
+#include <cstring>
 #include <limits>
 #include <random>
 
@@ -13,6 +16,51 @@ uint32_t sglGameSeed;
 /** Borland C/C++ psuedo-random number generator needed for vanilla compatibility */
 std::linear_congruential_engine<uint32_t, 0x015A4E35, 1, 0> diabloGenerator;
 
+/** Xoshiro pseudo-random number generator to provide less predictable seeds */
+xoshiro128plusplus seedGenerator;
+
+uint32_t xoshiro128plusplus::next()
+{
+	const uint32_t result = std::rotl(s[0] + s[3], 7) + s[0];
+
+	const uint32_t t = s[1] << 9;
+
+	s[2] ^= s[0];
+	s[3] ^= s[1];
+	s[1] ^= s[2];
+	s[0] ^= s[3];
+
+	s[2] ^= t;
+
+	s[3] = std::rotl(s[3], 11);
+
+	return result;
+}
+
+uint64_t xoshiro128plusplus::timeSeed()
+{
+	auto now = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
+	auto nano = std::chrono::nanoseconds(now.time_since_epoch());
+	return static_cast<uint64_t>(nano.count());
+}
+
+void xoshiro128plusplus::copy(state &dst, const state &src)
+{
+	memcpy(dst, src, sizeof(dst));
+}
+
+xoshiro128plusplus ReserveSeedSequence()
+{
+	xoshiro128plusplus reserved = seedGenerator;
+	seedGenerator.jump();
+	return reserved;
+}
+
+uint32_t GenerateSeed()
+{
+	return seedGenerator.next();
+}
+
 void SetRndSeed(uint32_t seed)
 {
 	diabloGenerator.seed(seed);
@@ -27,12 +75,12 @@ uint32_t GetLCGEngineState()
 void DiscardRandomValues(unsigned count)
 {
 	while (count != 0) {
-		GenerateSeed();
+		GenerateRandomNumber();
 		count--;
 	}
 }
 
-uint32_t GenerateSeed()
+uint32_t GenerateRandomNumber()
 {
 	sglGameSeed = diabloGenerator();
 	return sglGameSeed;
@@ -40,7 +88,7 @@ uint32_t GenerateSeed()
 
 int32_t AdvanceRndSeed()
 {
-	const int32_t seed = static_cast<int32_t>(GenerateSeed());
+	const int32_t seed = static_cast<int32_t>(GenerateRandomNumber());
 	// since abs(INT_MIN) is undefined behavior, handle this value specially
 	return seed == std::numeric_limits<int32_t>::min() ? std::numeric_limits<int32_t>::min() : std::abs(seed);
 }

Source/engine/random.hpp

@@ -136,6 +136,162 @@ public:
 	}
 };
 
+// Based on fmix32 implementation from MurmurHash3 created by Austin Appleby in 2008
+// https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher/blob/61a0530f28277f2e850bfc39600ce61d02b518de/src/MurmurHash3.cpp#L68
+// and adapted from https://prng.di.unimi.it/splitmix64.c written in 2015 by Sebastiano Vigna
+//
+// See also:
+//  Guy L. Steele, Doug Lea, and Christine H. Flood. 2014.
+//  Fast splittable pseudorandom number generators. SIGPLAN Not. 49, 10 (October 2014), 453–472.
+//  https://doi.org/10.1145/2714064.2660195
+class SplitMix32 {
+	uint32_t state;
+
+public:
+	SplitMix32(uint32_t state)
+	    : state(state)
+	{
+	}
+
+	uint32_t next()
+	{
+		uint32_t z = (state += 0x9e3779b9);
+		z = (z ^ (z >> 16)) * 0x85ebca6b;
+		z = (z ^ (z >> 13)) * 0xc2b2ae35;
+		return z ^ (z >> 16);
+	}
+
+	void generate(uint32_t *begin, const uint32_t *end)
+	{
+		while (begin != end) {
+			*begin = next();
+			++begin;
+		}
+	}
+};
+
+// Adapted from https://prng.di.unimi.it/splitmix64.c written in 2015 by Sebastiano Vigna
+//
+// See also:
+//  Guy L. Steele, Doug Lea, and Christine H. Flood. 2014.
+//  Fast splittable pseudorandom number generators. SIGPLAN Not. 49, 10 (October 2014), 453–472.
+//  https://doi.org/10.1145/2714064.2660195
+class SplitMix64 {
+	uint64_t state;
+
+public:
+	SplitMix64(uint64_t state)
+	    : state(state)
+	{
+	}
+
+	uint64_t next()
+	{
+		uint64_t z = (state += 0x9e3779b97f4a7c15);
+		z = (z ^ (z >> 30)) * 0xbf58476d1ce4e5b9;
+		z = (z ^ (z >> 27)) * 0x94d049bb133111eb;
+		return z ^ (z >> 31);
+	}
+
+	void generate(uint64_t *begin, const uint64_t *end)
+	{
+		while (begin != end) {
+			*begin = next();
+			++begin;
+		}
+	}
+};
+
+/** Adapted from https://prng.di.unimi.it/xoshiro128plusplus.c written in 2019 by David Blackman and Sebastiano Vigna */
+class xoshiro128plusplus {
+public:
+	typedef uint32_t state[4];
+
+	xoshiro128plusplus() { seed(); }
+	xoshiro128plusplus(const state &s) { copy(this->s, s); }
+	xoshiro128plusplus(uint64_t initialSeed) { seed(initialSeed); }
+	xoshiro128plusplus(uint32_t initialSeed) { seed(initialSeed); }
+
+	uint32_t next();
+
+	/* This is the jump function for the generator. It is equivalent
+	   to 2^64 calls to next(); it can be used to generate 2^64
+	   non-overlapping subsequences for parallel computations. */
+	void jump()
+	{
+		static constexpr uint32_t JUMP[] = { 0x8764000b, 0xf542d2d3, 0x6fa035c3, 0x77f2db5b };
+
+		uint32_t s0 = 0;
+		uint32_t s1 = 0;
+		uint32_t s2 = 0;
+		uint32_t s3 = 0;
+		for (const uint32_t entry : JUMP)
+			for (int b = 0; b < 32; b++) {
+				if (entry & UINT32_C(1) << b) {
+					s0 ^= s[0];
+					s1 ^= s[1];
+					s2 ^= s[2];
+					s3 ^= s[3];
+				}
+				next();
+			}
+
+		s[0] = s0;
+		s[1] = s1;
+		s[2] = s2;
+		s[3] = s3;
+	}
+
+	void save(state &s) const
+	{
+		copy(s, this->s);
+	}
+
+private:
+	state s;
+
+	void seed(uint64_t value)
+	{
+		uint64_t seeds[2];
+		SplitMix64 seedSequence { value };
+		seedSequence.generate(seeds, seeds + 2);
+
+		s[0] = static_cast<uint32_t>(seeds[0] >> 32);
+		s[1] = static_cast<uint32_t>(seeds[0]);
+		s[2] = static_cast<uint32_t>(seeds[1] >> 32);
+		s[3] = static_cast<uint32_t>(seeds[1]);
+	}
+
+	void seed(uint32_t value)
+	{
+		SplitMix32 seedSequence { value };
+		seedSequence.generate(s, s + 4);
+	}
+
+	void seed()
+	{
+		seed(timeSeed());
+
+		static std::random_device rd;
+		std::uniform_int_distribution<uint32_t> dist;
+		for (uint32_t &cell : s)
+			cell ^= dist(rd);
+	}
+
+	static uint64_t timeSeed();
+	static void copy(state &dst, const state &src);
+};
+
+/**
+ * @brief Returns a copy of the global seed generator and fast-forwards the global seed generator to avoid collisions
+ */
+xoshiro128plusplus ReserveSeedSequence();
+
+/**
+ * @brief Advances the global seed generator state and returns the new value
+ */
+uint32_t GenerateSeed();
+
 /**
  * @brief Set the state of the RandomNumberEngine used by the base game to the specific seed
  * @param seed New engine state
@@ -163,7 +319,7 @@ void DiscardRandomValues(unsigned count);
 /**
  * @brief Advances the global RandomNumberEngine state and returns the new value
  */
-uint32_t GenerateSeed();
+uint32_t GenerateRandomNumber();
 
 /**
  * @brief Generates a random non-negative integer (most of the time) using the vanilla RNG

Source/loadsave.cpp

@@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@ void SaveLevel(SaveWriter &saveWriter, LevelConversionData *levelConversionData)
 	DoUnVision(myPlayer.position.tile, myPlayer._pLightRad); // fix for vision staying on the level
 
 	if (leveltype == DTYPE_TOWN)
-		DungeonSeeds[0] = AdvanceRndSeed();
+		DungeonSeeds[0] = GenerateSeed();
 
 	char szName[MaxMpqPathSize];
 	GetTempLevelNames(szName);

Source/msg.cpp

@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ void DeltaLeaveSync(uint8_t bLevel)
 	if (!gbIsMultiplayer)
 		return;
 	if (leveltype == DTYPE_TOWN) {
-		DungeonSeeds[0] = AdvanceRndSeed();
+		DungeonSeeds[0] = GenerateSeed();
 		return;
 	}
 

Source/multi.cpp

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 #include <cstddef>
 #include <cstdint>
-#include <ctime>
 #include <string_view>
 
 #include <SDL.h>
@@ -485,8 +484,10 @@ bool InitMulti(GameData *gameData)
 
 void InitGameInfo()
 {
+	xoshiro128plusplus gameGenerator = ReserveSeedSequence();
+	gameGenerator.save(sgGameInitInfo.gameSeed);
+
 	sgGameInitInfo.size = sizeof(sgGameInitInfo);
-	sgGameInitInfo.dwSeed = static_cast<uint32_t>(time(nullptr));
 	sgGameInitInfo.programid = GAME_ID;
 	sgGameInitInfo.versionMajor = PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR;
 	sgGameInitInfo.versionMinor = PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR;
@@ -787,11 +788,11 @@ bool NetInit(bool bSinglePlayer)
 		NetClose();
 		gbSelectProvider = false;
 	}
-	SetRndSeed(sgGameInitInfo.dwSeed);
+	xoshiro128plusplus gameGenerator(sgGameInitInfo.gameSeed);
 	gnTickDelay = 1000 / sgGameInitInfo.nTickRate;
 
 	for (int i = 0; i < NUMLEVELS; i++) {
-		DungeonSeeds[i] = AdvanceRndSeed();
+		DungeonSeeds[i] = gameGenerator.next();
 		LevelSeeds[i] = std::nullopt;
 	}
 	PublicGame = DvlNet_IsPublicGame();

Source/multi.h

@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ struct Player;
 
 struct GameData {
 	int32_t size;
-	/** Used to initialise the seed table for dungeon levels so players in multiplayer games generate the same layout */
+	uint8_t reserved[4];
-	uint32_t dwSeed;
 	uint32_t programid;
 	uint8_t versionMajor;
 	uint8_t versionMinor;
@@ -35,6 +34,8 @@ struct GameData {
 	uint8_t bCowQuest;
 	uint8_t bFriendlyFire;
 	uint8_t fullQuests;
+	/** Used to initialise the seed table for dungeon levels so players in multiplayer games generate the same layout */
+	uint32_t gameSeed[4];
 };
 
 /* @brief Contains info of running public game (for game list browsing) */

Source/stores.cpp

@@ -2132,8 +2132,6 @@ void SetupTownStores()
 			if (myPlayer._pLvlVisited[i])
 				l = i;
 		}
-	} else {
-		SetRndSeed(DungeonSeeds[currlevel] * SDL_GetTicks());
 	}
 
 	l = std::clamp(l + 2, 6, 16);

test/random_test.cpp

@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ TEST(RandomTest, RandomEngineParams)
 	SetRndSeed(0);
 
 	// Starting from a seed of 0 means the multiplicand is dropped and the state advances by increment only
-	ASSERT_EQ(GenerateSeed(), increment) << "Increment factor is incorrect";
+	ASSERT_EQ(GenerateRandomNumber(), increment) << "Increment factor is incorrect";
 
 	// LCGs use a formula of mult * seed + inc. Using a long form in the code to document the expected factors.
-	ASSERT_EQ(GenerateSeed(), (multiplicand * 1) + increment) << "Multiplicand factor is incorrect";
+	ASSERT_EQ(GenerateRandomNumber(), (multiplicand * 1) + increment) << "Multiplicand factor is incorrect";
 
 	// C++11 defines the default seed for a LCG engine as 1. The ten thousandth value is commonly used for sanity checking
 	// a sequence, so as we've had one round since state 1 we need to discard another 9998 values to get to the 10000th state.
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ TEST(RandomTest, RandomEngineParams)
 	DiscardRandomValues(9997);
 
 	uint32_t expectedState = 3495122800U;
-	EXPECT_EQ(GenerateSeed(), expectedState) << "Wrong engine state after 9999 invocations";
+	EXPECT_EQ(GenerateRandomNumber(), expectedState) << "Wrong engine state after 9999 invocations";
 	expectedState = 3007658545U;
-	ASSERT_EQ(GenerateSeed(), expectedState) << "Wrong engine state after 10000 invocations";
+	ASSERT_EQ(GenerateRandomNumber(), expectedState) << "Wrong engine state after 10000 invocations";
 }
 
 TEST(RandomTest, AbsDistribution)