diff --git a/src/panfrost/bifrost/bifrost_compile.c b/src/panfrost/bifrost/bifrost_compile.c
index ea26034dafd..55a17f3bf35 100644
--- a/src/panfrost/bifrost/bifrost_compile.c
+++ b/src/panfrost/bifrost/bifrost_compile.c
@@ -2236,6 +2236,10 @@ bifrost_compile_shader_nir(void *mem_ctx, nir_shader *nir,
                                 bifrost_debug & BIFROST_DBG_VERBOSE);
         }
 
+        /* Pad the shader with enough zero bytes to trick the prefetcher */
+        memset(util_dynarray_grow(&program->compiled, uint8_t, BIFROST_SHADER_PREFETCH),
+               0, BIFROST_SHADER_PREFETCH);
+
         program->tls_size = ctx->tls_size;
 
         if ((bifrost_debug & BIFROST_DBG_SHADERDB || inputs->shaderdb) &&