diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-orion-mdio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-orion-mdio.txt
index 42cd81090a2c7..3f3cfc1d8d4d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-orion-mdio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-orion-mdio.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Required properties:
 
 Optional properties:
 - interrupts: interrupt line number for the SMI error/done interrupt
-- clocks: phandle for up to three required clocks for the MDIO instance
+- clocks: phandle for up to four required clocks for the MDIO instance
 
 The child nodes of the MDIO driver are the individual PHY devices
 connected to this MDIO bus. They must have a "reg" property given the
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c
index c5dac6bd2be4d..f660cc2b82583 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 
 struct orion_mdio_dev {
 	void __iomem *regs;
-	struct clk *clk[3];
+	struct clk *clk[4];
 	/*
 	 * If we have access to the error interrupt pin (which is
 	 * somewhat misnamed as it not only reflects internal errors
@@ -321,11 +321,19 @@ static int orion_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(dev->clk); i++) {
 		dev->clk[i] = of_clk_get(pdev->dev.of_node, i);
+		if (PTR_ERR(dev->clk[i]) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
+			ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
+			goto out_clk;
+		}
 		if (IS_ERR(dev->clk[i]))
 			break;
 		clk_prepare_enable(dev->clk[i]);
 	}
 
+	if (!IS_ERR(of_clk_get(pdev->dev.of_node, ARRAY_SIZE(dev->clk))))
+		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "unsupported number of clocks, limiting to the first "
+			 __stringify(ARRAY_SIZE(dev->clk)) "\n");
+
 	dev->err_interrupt = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
 	if (dev->err_interrupt > 0 &&
 	    resource_size(r) < MVMDIO_ERR_INT_MASK + 4) {
@@ -362,6 +370,7 @@ static int orion_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (dev->err_interrupt > 0)
 		writel(0, dev->regs + MVMDIO_ERR_INT_MASK);
 
+out_clk:
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(dev->clk); i++) {
 		if (IS_ERR(dev->clk[i]))
 			break;