diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
index 4b0a1b0f9888d..085cf0636a8d9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
@@ -1571,13 +1571,15 @@ static int dpaa_eth_refill_bpools(struct dpaa_priv *priv)
  * Skb freeing is not handled here.
  *
  * This function may be called on error paths in the Tx function, so guard
- * against cases when not all fd relevant fields were filled in.
+ * against cases when not all fd relevant fields were filled in. To avoid
+ * reading the invalid transmission timestamp for the error paths set ts to
+ * false.
  *
  * Return the skb backpointer, since for S/G frames the buffer containing it
  * gets freed here.
  */
 static struct sk_buff *dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(const struct dpaa_priv *priv,
-					  const struct qm_fd *fd)
+					  const struct qm_fd *fd, bool ts)
 {
 	const enum dma_data_direction dma_dir = DMA_TO_DEVICE;
 	struct device *dev = priv->net_dev->dev.parent;
@@ -1619,7 +1621,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(const struct dpaa_priv *priv,
 	}
 
 	/* DMA unmapping is required before accessing the HW provided info */
-	if (priv->tx_tstamp && skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) {
+	if (ts && priv->tx_tstamp &&
+	    skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) {
 		memset(&shhwtstamps, 0, sizeof(shhwtstamps));
 
 		if (!fman_port_get_tstamp(priv->mac_dev->port[TX], (void *)skbh,
@@ -2085,7 +2088,7 @@ dpaa_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net_dev)
 	if (likely(dpaa_xmit(priv, percpu_stats, queue_mapping, &fd) == 0))
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 
-	dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(priv, &fd);
+	dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(priv, &fd, false);
 skb_to_fd_failed:
 enomem:
 	percpu_stats->tx_errors++;
@@ -2131,7 +2134,7 @@ static void dpaa_tx_error(struct net_device *net_dev,
 
 	percpu_priv->stats.tx_errors++;
 
-	skb = dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(priv, fd);
+	skb = dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(priv, fd, false);
 	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 }
 
@@ -2171,7 +2174,7 @@ static void dpaa_tx_conf(struct net_device *net_dev,
 
 	percpu_priv->tx_confirm++;
 
-	skb = dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(priv, fd);
+	skb = dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(priv, fd, true);
 
 	consume_skb(skb);
 }
@@ -2398,7 +2401,7 @@ static void egress_ern(struct qman_portal *portal,
 	percpu_priv->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
 	count_ern(percpu_priv, msg);
 
-	skb = dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(priv, fd);
+	skb = dpaa_cleanup_tx_fd(priv, fd, false);
 	dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 }