diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
index 34bf022bb724498396bd0c525339ecbe7f6c4692..fbcd5c2b13aeb1a7358a9d656f97ffa1b46bf13b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
@@ -111,7 +111,16 @@ static void qca8k_rw_reg_ack_handler(struct dsa_switch *ds, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 	command = get_unaligned_le32(&mgmt_ethhdr->command);
 	cmd = FIELD_GET(QCA_HDR_MGMT_CMD, command);
+
 	len = FIELD_GET(QCA_HDR_MGMT_LENGTH, command);
+	/* Special case for len of 15 as this is the max value for len and needs to
+	 * be increased before converting it from word to dword.
+	 */
+	if (len == 15)
+		len++;
+
+	/* We can ignore odd value, we always round up them in the alloc function. */
+	len *= sizeof(u16);
 
 	/* Make sure the seq match the requested packet */
 	if (get_unaligned_le32(&mgmt_ethhdr->seq) == mgmt_eth_data->seq)
@@ -158,17 +167,33 @@ static struct sk_buff *qca8k_alloc_mdio_header(enum mdio_cmd cmd, u32 reg, u32 *
 	if (!skb)
 		return NULL;
 
-	/* Max value for len reg is 15 (0xf) but the switch actually return 16 byte
-	 * Actually for some reason the steps are:
-	 * 0: nothing
-	 * 1-4: first 4 byte
-	 * 5-6: first 12 byte
-	 * 7-15: all 16 byte
+	/* Hdr mgmt length value is in step of word size.
+	 * As an example to process 4 byte of data the correct length to set is 2.
+	 * To process 8 byte 4, 12 byte 6, 16 byte 8...
+	 *
+	 * Odd values will always return the next size on the ack packet.
+	 * (length of 3 (6 byte) will always return 8 bytes of data)
+	 *
+	 * This means that a value of 15 (0xf) actually means reading/writing 32 bytes
+	 * of data.
+	 *
+	 * To correctly calculate the length we devide the requested len by word and
+	 * round up.
+	 * On the ack function we can skip the odd check as we already handle the
+	 * case here.
+	 */
+	real_len = DIV_ROUND_UP(len, sizeof(u16));
+
+	/* We check if the result len is odd and we round up another time to
+	 * the next size. (length of 3 will be increased to 4 as switch will always
+	 * return 8 bytes)
 	 */
-	if (len == 16)
-		real_len = 15;
-	else
-		real_len = len;
+	if (real_len % sizeof(u16) != 0)
+		real_len++;
+
+	/* Max reg value is 0xf(15) but switch will always return the next size (32 byte) */
+	if (real_len == 16)
+		real_len--;
 
 	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
 	skb_set_network_header(skb, skb->len);