diff --git a/src/microsoft/clc/clc_compiler.c b/src/microsoft/clc/clc_compiler.c
index 04b3f771792..bedaa3d804b 100644
--- a/src/microsoft/clc/clc_compiler.c
+++ b/src/microsoft/clc/clc_compiler.c
@@ -978,7 +978,8 @@ clc_spirv_to_dxil(struct clc_libclc *lib,
 
    // Before removing dead uniforms, dedupe constant samplers to make more dead uniforms
    NIR_PASS_V(nir, clc_nir_dedupe_const_samplers);
-   NIR_PASS_V(nir, nir_remove_dead_variables, nir_var_uniform | nir_var_mem_ubo | nir_var_mem_constant | nir_var_function_temp, NULL);
+   NIR_PASS_V(nir, nir_remove_dead_variables, nir_var_uniform | nir_var_mem_ubo |
+              nir_var_mem_constant | nir_var_function_temp | nir_var_image, NULL);
 
    // Fill out inline sampler metadata, now that they've been deduped and dead ones removed
    nir_foreach_variable_with_modes(var, nir, nir_var_uniform) {