Documentation/bpf: Add documentation for filesystem kfuncs

Add a brief introduction for file system kfuncs:

  bpf_get_file_xattr()
  bpf_get_fsverity_digest()

The documentation highlights the strategy to avoid recursions of these
kfuncs.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231129234417.856536-4-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/fs_kfuncs.rst b/Documentation/bpf/fs_kfuncs.rst
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+++ b/Documentation/bpf/fs_kfuncs.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+.. _fs_kfuncs-header-label:
+
+=====================
+BPF filesystem kfuncs
+=====================
+
+BPF LSM programs need to access filesystem data from LSM hooks. The following
+BPF kfuncs can be used to get these data.
+
+ * ``bpf_get_file_xattr()``
+
+ * ``bpf_get_fsverity_digest()``
+
+To avoid recursions, these kfuncs follow the following rules:
+
+1. These kfuncs are only permitted from BPF LSM function.
+2. These kfuncs should not call into other LSM hooks, i.e. security_*(). For
+   example, ``bpf_get_file_xattr()`` does not use ``vfs_getxattr()``, because
+   the latter calls LSM hook ``security_inode_getxattr``.

diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/index.rst b/Documentation/bpf/index.rst
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--- a/Documentation/bpf/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/index.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ that goes into great technical depth about the BPF Architecture.
    helpers
    kfuncs
    cpumasks
+   fs_kfuncs
    programs
    maps
    bpf_prog_run