can: introduce CAN midlayer private and allocate it automatically

This patch introduces the CAN midlayer private structure ("struct
can_ml_priv") which should be used to hold protocol specific per device
data structures. For now it's only member is "struct can_dev_rcv_lists".

The CAN midlayer private is allocated via alloc_netdev()'s private and
assigned to "struct net_device::ml_priv" during device creation. This is
done transparently for CAN drivers using alloc_candev(). The slcan, vcan
and vxcan drivers which are not using alloc_candev() have been adopted
manually. The memory layout of the netdev_priv allocated via
alloc_candev() will looke like this:

  +-------------------------+
  | driver's priv           |
  +-------------------------+
  | struct can_ml_priv      |
  +-------------------------+
  | array of struct sk_buff |
  +-------------------------+

Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>

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