diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
index 5599d93ec0d2..cc48f73adadf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
@@ -334,8 +334,7 @@ static int submit_fence_sync(struct msm_gem_submit *submit, bool no_implicit)
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 
-		/* exclusive fences must be ordered */
-		if (no_implicit && !write)
+		if (no_implicit)
 			continue;
 
 		ret = drm_sched_job_add_implicit_dependencies(&submit->base,