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@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/bpf/fs_kfuncs.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/bpf/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/bpf/fs_kfuncs.rst diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/fs_kfuncs.rst b/Documentation/bpf/fs_kfuncs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8762c3233a3d --- /dev/null +++ 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 index aeaeb35e6d4a..0bb5cb8157f1 100644 --- 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 -- 2.34.1