diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt
index 7413eb05223b..c77f9d57eb91 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt
@@ -163,3 +163,12 @@ This requests that the NIC receive all possible frames, including errored
 frames (such as bad FCS, etc).  This can be helpful when sniffing a link with
 bad packets on it.  Some NICs may receive more packets if also put into normal
 PROMISC mode.
+
+*  rx-gro-hw
+
+This requests that the NIC enables Hardware GRO (generic receive offload).
+Hardware GRO is basically the exact reverse of TSO, and is generally
+stricter than Hardware LRO.  A packet stream merged by Hardware GRO must
+be re-segmentable by GSO or TSO back to the exact original packet stream.
+Hardware GRO is dependent on RXCSUM since every packet successfully merged
+by hardware must also have the checksum verified by hardware.
diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
index b1b0ca7ccb2b..db84c516bcfb 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ enum {
 	NETIF_F_HW_ESP_TX_CSUM_BIT,	/* ESP with TX checksum offload */
 	NETIF_F_RX_UDP_TUNNEL_PORT_BIT, /* Offload of RX port for UDP tunnels */
 
+	NETIF_F_GRO_HW_BIT,		/* Hardware Generic receive offload */
+
 	/*
 	 * Add your fresh new feature above and remember to update
 	 * netdev_features_strings[] in net/core/ethtool.c and maybe
@@ -97,6 +99,7 @@ enum {
 #define NETIF_F_FRAGLIST	__NETIF_F(FRAGLIST)
 #define NETIF_F_FSO		__NETIF_F(FSO)
 #define NETIF_F_GRO		__NETIF_F(GRO)
+#define NETIF_F_GRO_HW		__NETIF_F(GRO_HW)
 #define NETIF_F_GSO		__NETIF_F(GSO)
 #define NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST	__NETIF_F(GSO_ROBUST)
 #define NETIF_F_HIGHDMA		__NETIF_F(HIGHDMA)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index b0eee49a2489..4b43f5dcabcd 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7424,6 +7424,18 @@ static netdev_features_t netdev_fix_features(struct net_device *dev,
 		features &= ~dev->gso_partial_features;
 	}
 
+	if (!(features & NETIF_F_RXCSUM)) {
+		/* NETIF_F_GRO_HW implies doing RXCSUM since every packet
+		 * successfully merged by hardware must also have the
+		 * checksum verified by hardware.  If the user does not
+		 * want to enable RXCSUM, logically, we should disable GRO_HW.
+		 */
+		if (features & NETIF_F_GRO_HW) {
+			netdev_dbg(dev, "Dropping NETIF_F_GRO_HW since no RXCSUM feature.\n");
+			features &= ~NETIF_F_GRO_HW;
+		}
+	}
+
 	return features;
 }
 
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index f8fcf450a36e..50a79203043b 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static const char netdev_features_strings[NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN]
 	[NETIF_F_LLTX_BIT] =             "tx-lockless",
 	[NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL_BIT] =      "netns-local",
 	[NETIF_F_GRO_BIT] =              "rx-gro",
+	[NETIF_F_GRO_HW_BIT] =           "rx-gro-hw",
 	[NETIF_F_LRO_BIT] =              "rx-lro",
 
 	[NETIF_F_TSO_BIT] =              "tx-tcp-segmentation",