diff --git a/src/panfrost/lib/pan_cs.c b/src/panfrost/lib/pan_cs.c
index 5eb37a25099..33461361412 100644
--- a/src/panfrost/lib/pan_cs.c
+++ b/src/panfrost/lib/pan_cs.c
@@ -793,8 +793,8 @@ pan_emit_sfbd(const struct panfrost_device *dev,
 
                 cfg.sample_count = fb->nr_samples;
 
-                /* XXX: different behaviour from MFBD and probably wrong... */
-                cfg.msaa = mali_sampling_mode(fb->rts[0].view);
+                if (fb->rt_count)
+                        cfg.msaa = mali_sampling_mode(fb->rts[0].view);
         }
         pan_emit_sfbd_tiler(dev, fb, tiler_ctx, fbd);
         pan_section_pack(fbd, SINGLE_TARGET_FRAMEBUFFER, PADDING_2, padding);