diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/bpf/jit.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/bpf/jit.c
index 4e18d95e548f1680f27bac98b8f1fa206607e546..c3ce0fb47a0f06d0f417ee833eb335c75946907b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/bpf/jit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/bpf/jit.c
@@ -326,7 +326,18 @@ __emit_shf(struct nfp_prog *nfp_prog, u16 dst, enum alu_dst_ab dst_ab,
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (sc == SHF_SC_L_SHF)
+	/* NFP shift instruction has something special. If shift direction is
+	 * left then shift amount of 1 to 31 is specified as 32 minus the amount
+	 * to shift.
+	 *
+	 * But no need to do this for indirect shift which has shift amount be
+	 * 0. Even after we do this subtraction, shift amount 0 will be turned
+	 * into 32 which will eventually be encoded the same as 0 because only
+	 * low 5 bits are encoded, but shift amount be 32 will fail the
+	 * FIELD_PREP check done later on shift mask (0x1f), due to 32 is out of
+	 * mask range.
+	 */
+	if (sc == SHF_SC_L_SHF && shift)
 		shift = 32 - shift;
 
 	insn = OP_SHF_BASE |