diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
index e0a8890a62e23..3e2a31d8190eb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
@@ -448,6 +448,12 @@ struct drm_sched_job *drm_sched_entity_pop_job(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
 			drm_sched_rq_update_fifo(entity, next->submit_ts);
 	}
 
+	/* Jobs and entities might have different lifecycles. Since we're
+	 * removing the job from the entities queue, set the jobs entity pointer
+	 * to NULL to prevent any future access of the entity through this job.
+	 */
+	sched_job->entity = NULL;
+
 	return sched_job;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
index aea5a90ff98b9..cdd67676c3d1b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
  *    the hardware.
  *
  * The jobs in a entity are always scheduled in the order that they were pushed.
+ *
+ * Note that once a job was taken from the entities queue and pushed to the
+ * hardware, i.e. the pending queue, the entity must not be referenced anymore
+ * through the jobs entity pointer.
  */
 
 #include <linux/kthread.h>