diff --git a/src/compiler/spirv/spirv_to_nir.c b/src/compiler/spirv/spirv_to_nir.c
index 5e74c23d73a..635fdda2527 100644
--- a/src/compiler/spirv/spirv_to_nir.c
+++ b/src/compiler/spirv/spirv_to_nir.c
@@ -4145,8 +4145,8 @@ vtn_emit_memory_barrier(struct vtn_builder *b, SpvScope scope,
       return;
    }
 
-   /* There's only two scopes thing left */
-   vtn_assert(scope == SpvScopeInvocation || scope == SpvScopeDevice);
+   /* There's only three scopes left */
+   vtn_assert(scope == SpvScopeInvocation || scope == SpvScopeDevice || scope == SpvScopeQueueFamily);
 
    /* Map the GLSL memoryBarrier() construct and any barriers with more than one
     * semantic to the corresponding NIR one.