bpf: Support getting referenced kptr from struct_ops argument

Allows struct_ops programs to acqurie referenced kptrs from arguments
by directly reading the argument.

The verifier will acquire a reference for struct_ops a argument tagged
with "__ref" in the stub function in the beginning of the main program.
The user will be able to access the referenced kptr directly by reading
the context as long as it has not been released by the program.

This new mechanism to acquire referenced kptr (compared to the existing
"kfunc with KF_ACQUIRE") is introduced for ergonomic and semantic reasons.
In the first use case, Qdisc_ops, an skb is passed to .enqueue in the
first argument. This mechanism provides a natural way for users to get a
referenced kptr in the .enqueue struct_ops programs and makes sure that a
qdisc will always enqueue or drop the skb.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <amery.hung@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217190640.1748177-3-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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