diff --git a/src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h b/src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h
index 049c2edfd3c..185e2409b34 100644
--- a/src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h
+++ b/src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h
@@ -3052,8 +3052,8 @@ VkResult anv_init_sparse_bindings(struct anv_device *device,
                                   enum anv_bo_alloc_flags alloc_flags,
                                   uint64_t client_address,
                                   struct anv_address *out_address);
-VkResult anv_free_sparse_bindings(struct anv_device *device,
-                                  struct anv_sparse_binding_data *sparse);
+void anv_free_sparse_bindings(struct anv_device *device,
+                              struct anv_sparse_binding_data *sparse);
 VkResult anv_sparse_bind_buffer(struct anv_device *device,
                                 struct anv_buffer *buffer,
                                 const VkSparseMemoryBind *vk_bind,
diff --git a/src/intel/vulkan/anv_sparse.c b/src/intel/vulkan/anv_sparse.c
index a4fa29462f4..09e57d353d5 100644
--- a/src/intel/vulkan/anv_sparse.c
+++ b/src/intel/vulkan/anv_sparse.c
@@ -658,12 +658,12 @@ anv_init_sparse_bindings(struct anv_device *device,
    return VK_SUCCESS;
 }
 
-VkResult
+void
 anv_free_sparse_bindings(struct anv_device *device,
                          struct anv_sparse_binding_data *sparse)
 {
    if (!sparse->address)
-      return VK_SUCCESS;
+      return;
 
    sparse_debug("%s: address:0x%016"PRIx64" size:0x%08"PRIx64"\n",
                 __func__, sparse->address, sparse->size);
@@ -686,12 +686,16 @@ anv_free_sparse_bindings(struct anv_device *device,
       .signal_count = 0,
    };
    VkResult res = anv_sparse_bind(device, &submit);
+
+   /* Our callers don't have a way to signal failure to the upper layers, so
+    * just keep the vma if we fail to unbind it. Still, let's have an
+    * assertion because this really shouldn't be happening.
+    */
+   assert(res == VK_SUCCESS);
    if (res != VK_SUCCESS)
-      return res;
+      return;
 
    anv_vma_free(device, sparse->vma_heap, sparse->address, sparse->size);
-
-   return VK_SUCCESS;
 }
 
 static VkExtent3D