bitops: Add __attribute_const__ to generic ffs()-family implementations

While tracking down a problem where constant expressions used by
BUILD_BUG_ON() suddenly stopped working[1], we found that an added static
initializer was convincing the compiler that it couldn't track the state
of the prior statically initialized value. Tracing this down found that
ffs() was used in the initializer macro, but since it wasn't marked with
__attribute__const__, the compiler had to assume the function might
change variable states as a side-effect (which is not true for ffs(),
which provides deterministic math results).

Add missing __attribute_const__ annotations to generic implementations of
ffs(), __ffs(), fls(), and __fls() functions. These are pure mathematical
functions that always return the same result for the same input with no
side effects, making them eligible for compiler optimization.

Build tested with x86_64 defconfig using GCC 14.2.0, which should validate
the implementations when used by ARM, ARM64, LoongArch, Microblaze,
NIOS2, and SPARC32 architectures.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/364 [1]
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804164417.1612371-2-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/clz_ctz.c b/lib/clz_ctz.c
index fb8c0c5c2bd2..8778ec44bf63 100644
--- a/lib/clz_ctz.c
+++ b/lib/clz_ctz.c
@@ -15,28 +15,28 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 
 int __weak __ctzsi2(int val);
-int __weak __ctzsi2(int val)
+int __weak __attribute_const__ __ctzsi2(int val)
 {
 	return __ffs(val);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ctzsi2);
 
 int __weak __clzsi2(int val);
-int __weak __clzsi2(int val)
+int __weak __attribute_const__ __clzsi2(int val)
 {
 	return 32 - fls(val);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clzsi2);
 
 int __weak __clzdi2(u64 val);
-int __weak __clzdi2(u64 val)
+int __weak __attribute_const__ __clzdi2(u64 val)
 {
 	return 64 - fls64(val);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clzdi2);
 
 int __weak __ctzdi2(u64 val);
-int __weak __ctzdi2(u64 val)
+int __weak __attribute_const__ __ctzdi2(u64 val)
 {
 	return __ffs64(val);
 }