diff --git a/net/6lowpan/nhc.c b/net/6lowpan/nhc.c
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+/*
+ *	6LoWPAN next header compression
+ *
+ *
+ *	Authors:
+ *	Alexander Aring		<aar@pengutronix.de>
+ *
+ *	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ *	modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ *	as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ *	2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/netdevice.h>
+
+#include <net/ipv6.h>
+
+#include "nhc.h"
+
+static struct rb_root rb_root = RB_ROOT;
+static struct lowpan_nhc *lowpan_nexthdr_nhcs[NEXTHDR_MAX];
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+static int lowpan_nhc_insert(struct lowpan_nhc *nhc)
+{
+	struct rb_node **new = &rb_root.rb_node, *parent = NULL;
+
+	/* Figure out where to put new node */
+	while (*new) {
+		struct lowpan_nhc *this = container_of(*new, struct lowpan_nhc,
+						       node);
+		int result, len_dif, len;
+
+		len_dif = nhc->idlen - this->idlen;
+
+		if (nhc->idlen < this->idlen)
+			len = nhc->idlen;
+		else
+			len = this->idlen;
+
+		result = memcmp(nhc->id, this->id, len);
+		if (!result)
+			result = len_dif;
+
+		parent = *new;
+		if (result < 0)
+			new = &((*new)->rb_left);
+		else if (result > 0)
+			new = &((*new)->rb_right);
+		else
+			return -EEXIST;
+	}
+
+	/* Add new node and rebalance tree. */
+	rb_link_node(&nhc->node, parent, new);
+	rb_insert_color(&nhc->node, &rb_root);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void lowpan_nhc_remove(struct lowpan_nhc *nhc)
+{
+	rb_erase(&nhc->node, &rb_root);
+}
+
+static struct lowpan_nhc *lowpan_nhc_by_nhcid(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	struct rb_node *node = rb_root.rb_node;
+	const u8 *nhcid_skb_ptr = skb->data;
+
+	while (node) {
+		struct lowpan_nhc *nhc = container_of(node, struct lowpan_nhc,
+						      node);
+		u8 nhcid_skb_ptr_masked[LOWPAN_NHC_MAX_ID_LEN];
+		int result, i;
+
+		if (nhcid_skb_ptr + nhc->idlen > skb->data + skb->len)
+			return NULL;
+
+		/* copy and mask afterwards the nhid value from skb */
+		memcpy(nhcid_skb_ptr_masked, nhcid_skb_ptr, nhc->idlen);
+		for (i = 0; i < nhc->idlen; i++)
+			nhcid_skb_ptr_masked[i] &= nhc->idmask[i];
+
+		result = memcmp(nhcid_skb_ptr_masked, nhc->id, nhc->idlen);
+		if (result < 0)
+			node = node->rb_left;
+		else if (result > 0)
+			node = node->rb_right;
+		else
+			return nhc;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+int lowpan_nhc_check_compression(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				 const struct ipv6hdr *hdr, u8 **hc_ptr,
+				 u8 *iphc0)
+{
+	struct lowpan_nhc *nhc;
+
+	spin_lock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	nhc = lowpan_nexthdr_nhcs[hdr->nexthdr];
+	if (nhc && nhc->compress)
+		*iphc0 |= LOWPAN_IPHC_NH_C;
+	else
+		lowpan_push_hc_data(hc_ptr, &hdr->nexthdr,
+				    sizeof(hdr->nexthdr));
+
+	spin_unlock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int lowpan_nhc_do_compression(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct ipv6hdr *hdr,
+			      u8 **hc_ptr)
+{
+	int ret;
+	struct lowpan_nhc *nhc;
+
+	spin_lock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	nhc = lowpan_nexthdr_nhcs[hdr->nexthdr];
+	/* check if the nhc module was removed in unlocked part.
+	 * TODO: this is a workaround we should prevent unloading
+	 * of nhc modules while unlocked part, this will always drop
+	 * the lowpan packet but it's very unlikely.
+	 *
+	 * Solution isn't easy because we need to decide at
+	 * lowpan_nhc_check_compression if we do a compression or not.
+	 * Because the inline data which is added to skb, we can't move this
+	 * handling.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(!nhc || !nhc->compress)) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	/* In the case of RAW sockets the transport header is not set by
+	 * the ip6 stack so we must set it ourselves
+	 */
+	if (skb->transport_header == skb->network_header)
+		skb_set_transport_header(skb, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr));
+
+	ret = nhc->compress(skb, hc_ptr);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto out;
+
+	/* skip the transport header */
+	skb_pull(skb, nhc->nexthdrlen);
+
+out:
+	spin_unlock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+int lowpan_nhc_do_uncompression(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
+				struct ipv6hdr *hdr)
+{
+	struct lowpan_nhc *nhc;
+	int ret;
+
+	spin_lock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	nhc = lowpan_nhc_by_nhcid(skb);
+	if (nhc) {
+		if (nhc->uncompress) {
+			ret = nhc->uncompress(skb, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) +
+					      nhc->nexthdrlen);
+			if (ret < 0) {
+				spin_unlock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+				return ret;
+			}
+		} else {
+			spin_unlock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+			netdev_warn(dev, "received nhc id for %s which is not implemented.\n",
+				    nhc->name);
+			return -ENOTSUPP;
+		}
+	} else {
+		spin_unlock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+		netdev_warn(dev, "received unknown nhc id which was not found.\n");
+		return -ENOENT;
+	}
+
+	hdr->nexthdr = nhc->nexthdr;
+	skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
+	raw_dump_table(__func__, "raw transport header dump",
+		       skb_transport_header(skb), nhc->nexthdrlen);
+
+	spin_unlock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int lowpan_nhc_add(struct lowpan_nhc *nhc)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!nhc->idlen || !nhc->idsetup)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	WARN_ONCE(nhc->idlen > LOWPAN_NHC_MAX_ID_LEN,
+		  "LOWPAN_NHC_MAX_ID_LEN should be updated to %zd.\n",
+		  nhc->idlen);
+
+	nhc->idsetup(nhc);
+
+	spin_lock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	if (lowpan_nexthdr_nhcs[nhc->nexthdr]) {
+		ret = -EEXIST;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	ret = lowpan_nhc_insert(nhc);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto out;
+
+	lowpan_nexthdr_nhcs[nhc->nexthdr] = nhc;
+out:
+	spin_unlock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(lowpan_nhc_add);
+
+void lowpan_nhc_del(struct lowpan_nhc *nhc)
+{
+	spin_lock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	lowpan_nhc_remove(nhc);
+	lowpan_nexthdr_nhcs[nhc->nexthdr] = NULL;
+
+	spin_unlock_bh(&lowpan_nhc_lock);
+
+	synchronize_net();
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(lowpan_nhc_del);