diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
index 03115c1c1063..859818676b69 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
@@ -1356,6 +1356,29 @@ static struct airoha_npu *airoha_ppe_npu_get(struct airoha_eth *eth)
 	return npu;
 }
 
+static int airoha_ppe_wait_for_npu_init(struct airoha_eth *eth)
+{
+	int err;
+	u32 val;
+
+	/* PPE_FLOW_CFG default register value is 0. Since we reset FE
+	 * during the device probe we can just check the configured value
+	 * is not 0 here.
+	 */
+	err = read_poll_timeout(airoha_fe_rr, val, val, USEC_PER_MSEC,
+				100 * USEC_PER_MSEC, false, eth,
+				REG_PPE_PPE_FLOW_CFG(0));
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	if (airoha_ppe_is_enabled(eth, 1))
+		err = read_poll_timeout(airoha_fe_rr, val, val, USEC_PER_MSEC,
+					100 * USEC_PER_MSEC, false, eth,
+					REG_PPE_PPE_FLOW_CFG(1));
+
+	return err;
+}
+
 static int airoha_ppe_offload_setup(struct airoha_eth *eth)
 {
 	struct airoha_npu *npu = airoha_ppe_npu_get(eth);
@@ -1369,6 +1392,11 @@ static int airoha_ppe_offload_setup(struct airoha_eth *eth)
 	if (err)
 		goto error_npu_put;
 
+	/* Wait for NPU PPE configuration to complete */
+	err = airoha_ppe_wait_for_npu_init(eth);
+	if (err)
+		goto error_npu_put;
+
 	ppe_num_stats_entries = airoha_ppe_get_total_num_stats_entries(ppe);
 	if (ppe_num_stats_entries > 0) {
 		err = npu->ops.ppe_init_stats(npu, ppe->foe_stats_dma,