diff -r 59a4f1a46aa6 -r 278054f709c9 src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh
--- a/src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh	Mon Mar 30 10:02:34 2015 +0100
+++ b/src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh	Mon Mar 30 10:03:02 2015 +0100
@@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@
     } else {
         BlkType *blk = tags->findBlock(mshr->blkAddr, mshr->isSecure);
 
-        if (tgt_pkt->cmd == MemCmd::HardPFReq) {
+        if (tgt_pkt->cmd == MemCmd::HardPFReq && forwardSnoops) {
             // We need to check the caches above us to verify that
             // they don't have a copy of this block in the dirty state
             // at the moment. Without this check we could get a stale