diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c
index 7d4f12b69ee2..c5ca7b392b0d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c
@@ -2997,50 +2997,71 @@ static int ixgbe_get_nvm_srev(struct ixgbe_hw *hw,
  * Searches through the Option ROM flash contents to locate the CIVD data for
  * the image.
  *
- * Return: the exit code of the operation.
+ * Return: -ENOMEM when cannot allocate memory, -EDOM for checksum violation,
+ *	   -ENODATA when cannot find proper data, -EIO for faulty read or
+ *	   0 on success.
+ *
+ *	   On success @civd stores collected data.
  */
 static int
 ixgbe_get_orom_civd_data(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, enum ixgbe_bank_select bank,
 			 struct ixgbe_orom_civd_info *civd)
 {
-	struct ixgbe_orom_civd_info tmp;
+	u32 orom_size = hw->flash.banks.orom_size;
+	u8 *orom_data;
 	u32 offset;
 	int err;
 
+	orom_data = kzalloc(orom_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!orom_data)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	err = ixgbe_read_flash_module(hw, bank,
+				      IXGBE_E610_SR_1ST_OROM_BANK_PTR, 0,
+				      orom_data, orom_size);
+	if (err) {
+		err = -EIO;
+		goto cleanup;
+	}
+
 	/* The CIVD section is located in the Option ROM aligned to 512 bytes.
 	 * The first 4 bytes must contain the ASCII characters "$CIV".
 	 * A simple modulo 256 sum of all of the bytes of the structure must
 	 * equal 0.
 	 */
-	for (offset = 0; (offset + SZ_512) <= hw->flash.banks.orom_size;
-	     offset += SZ_512) {
+	for (offset = 0; offset + SZ_512 <= orom_size; offset += SZ_512) {
+		struct ixgbe_orom_civd_info *tmp;
 		u8 sum = 0;
 		u32 i;
 
-		err = ixgbe_read_flash_module(hw, bank,
-					      IXGBE_E610_SR_1ST_OROM_BANK_PTR,
-					      offset,
-					      (u8 *)&tmp, sizeof(tmp));
-		if (err)
-			return err;
+		BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*tmp) > SZ_512);
+
+		tmp = (struct ixgbe_orom_civd_info *)&orom_data[offset];
 
 		/* Skip forward until we find a matching signature */
-		if (memcmp(IXGBE_OROM_CIV_SIGNATURE, tmp.signature,
-			   sizeof(tmp.signature)))
+		if (memcmp(IXGBE_OROM_CIV_SIGNATURE, tmp->signature,
+			   sizeof(tmp->signature)))
 			continue;
 
 		/* Verify that the simple checksum is zero */
-		for (i = 0; i < sizeof(tmp); i++)
-			sum += ((u8 *)&tmp)[i];
+		for (i = 0; i < sizeof(*tmp); i++)
+			sum += ((u8 *)tmp)[i];
 
-		if (sum)
-			return -EDOM;
+		if (sum) {
+			err = -EDOM;
+			goto cleanup;
+		}
 
-		*civd = tmp;
-		return 0;
+		*civd = *tmp;
+		err = 0;
+
+		goto cleanup;
 	}
 
-	return -ENODATA;
+	err = -ENODATA;
+cleanup:
+	kfree(orom_data);
+	return err;
 }
 
 /**