diff --git a/src/panfrost/compiler/bifrost/bifrost_compile.c b/src/panfrost/compiler/bifrost/bifrost_compile.c
index 47bcde73332..c34cdb3b73e 100644
--- a/src/panfrost/compiler/bifrost/bifrost_compile.c
+++ b/src/panfrost/compiler/bifrost/bifrost_compile.c
@@ -6251,7 +6251,7 @@ bifrost_preprocess_nir(nir_shader *nir, unsigned gpu_id)
 
    /* Lower away all variables for smaller shaders */
    NIR_PASS(_, nir, nir_lower_vars_to_ssa);
-   NIR_PASS(_, nir, nir_remove_dead_variables, nir_var_all, NULL);
+   NIR_PASS(_, nir, nir_remove_dead_variables, nir_var_function_temp, NULL);
 
    /* We assume that UBO and SSBO were lowered, let's move things around. */
    nir_move_options move_all = nir_move_const_undef | nir_move_load_ubo |