diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/zink/zink_draw.cpp b/src/gallium/drivers/zink/zink_draw.cpp
index f79f13f1046..8f91fa459ac 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/zink/zink_draw.cpp
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/zink/zink_draw.cpp
@@ -399,8 +399,9 @@ update_barriers(struct zink_context *ctx, bool is_compute)
             if (res->write_bind_count[is_compute])
                access |= VK_ACCESS_SHADER_READ_BIT;
             /* TODO: there are no other write-only buffer descriptors without deeper shader analysis */
-            if (res->image_bind_count[is_compute] != res->bind_count[is_compute] ||
-                res->write_bind_count[is_compute] != res->image_bind_count[is_compute])
+            if (pipeline != VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_INPUT_BIT &&
+                (res->image_bind_count[is_compute] != res->bind_count[is_compute] ||
+                 res->write_bind_count[is_compute] != res->image_bind_count[is_compute]))
                access |= VK_ACCESS_SHADER_READ_BIT;
          } else {
             if (res->bind_count[is_compute] != res->write_bind_count[is_compute])