ci: add CodeQL security scanning workflow

.github/workflows/codeql.yml

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+name: "CodeQL Security Scanning"
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - develop
+      - mainline
+      - candidate
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - develop
+      - mainline
+  schedule:
+    # Weekly scan on Fridays at 6:34 PM UTC
+    - cron: '34 18 * * 5'
+
+jobs:
+  analyze:
+    name: Analyze (C/C++)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container: rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:latest
+    permissions:
+      security-events: write
+      packages: read
+      actions: read
+      contents: read
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Install OS requirements
+        timeout-minutes: 10
+        run: |
+          apt update
+          apt install -y software-properties-common
+          apt-add-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa
+          apt-get update
+          apt install -y git
+
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Configure Git Safe Directory
+        run: |
+          git config --global --add safe.directory "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}"
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          apt-get update
+          apt-get install -y build-essential cmake libnuma-dev
+
+      - name: Initialize CodeQL
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
+        with:
+          languages: c-cpp
+          build-mode: manual
+          queries: security-extended
+
+      - name: Build TransferBench
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p build
+          cd build
+          cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+                   -DBUILD_LOCAL_GPU_TARGET_ONLY=ON \
+                   -DENABLE_NIC_EXEC=OFF \
+                   -DENABLE_MPI_COMM=OFF \
+                   -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/rocm
+          make -j $(nproc)
+
+      - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
+        with:
+          category: "/language:c-cpp"