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blake2s_compress_generic is weakly aliased by blake2s_compress. The
current harness for function selection uses a function pointer, which is
ordinarily inlined and resolved at compile time. But when Clang's CFI is
enabled, CFI still triggers when making an indirect call via a weak
symbol. This seems like a bug in Clang's CFI, as though it's bucketing
weak symbols and strong symbols differently. It also only seems to
trigger when "full LTO" mode is used, rather than "thin LTO".

[    0.000000][    T0] Kernel panic - not syncing: CFI failure (target: blake2s_compress_generic+0x0/0x1444)
[    0.000000][    T0] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.16.0-mainline-06981-g076c855b846e #1
[    0.000000][    T0] Hardware name: MT6873 (DT)
[    0.000000][    T0] Call trace:
[    0.000000][    T0]  dump_backtrace+0xfc/0x1dc
[    0.000000][    T0]  dump_stack_lvl+0xa8/0x11c
[    0.000000][    T0]  panic+0x194/0x464
[    0.000000][  ...