diff --git a/ext/dom/tests/DOMEntityReference_predefined_free.phpt b/ext/dom/tests/DOMEntityReference_predefined_free.phpt
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b971d83703..00000000000
--- a/ext/dom/tests/DOMEntityReference_predefined_free.phpt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
---TEST--
-Freeing of a predefined DOMEntityReference
---EXTENSIONS--
-dom
---FILE--
-<?php
-$ref = new DOMEntityReference("amp");
-var_dump($ref);
-?>
---EXPECT--
-object(DOMEntityReference)#1 (17) {
-  ["nodeName"]=>
-  string(3) "amp"
-  ["nodeValue"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["nodeType"]=>
-  int(5)
-  ["parentNode"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["parentElement"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["childNodes"]=>
-  string(22) "(object value omitted)"
-  ["firstChild"]=>
-  string(22) "(object value omitted)"
-  ["lastChild"]=>
-  string(22) "(object value omitted)"
-  ["previousSibling"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["nextSibling"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["attributes"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["isConnected"]=>
-  bool(false)
-  ["namespaceURI"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["prefix"]=>
-  string(0) ""
-  ["localName"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["baseURI"]=>
-  NULL
-  ["textContent"]=>
-  string(0) ""
-}
diff --git a/ext/dom/tests/delayed_freeing/entity_declaration.phpt b/ext/dom/tests/delayed_freeing/entity_declaration.phpt
index 5caf29eedad..3e082611c35 100644
--- a/ext/dom/tests/delayed_freeing/entity_declaration.phpt
+++ b/ext/dom/tests/delayed_freeing/entity_declaration.phpt
@@ -9,32 +9,16 @@ $doc->loadXML(<<<'XML'
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE books [
 <!ENTITY test "entity is only for test purposes">
-<!ENTITY myimage PUBLIC "-" "mypicture.gif" NDATA GIF>
 ]>
 <container/>
 XML);
-$ref1 = $doc->createEntityReference("test");
-$ref2 = $doc->createEntityReference("myimage");
-$entity1 = $doc->doctype->entities[0];
-$entity2 = $doc->doctype->entities[1];
-
-// Entity order depends on addresses
-if ($entity1->nodeName !== "test") {
-    [$entity1, $entity2] = [$entity2, $entity1];
-}
-
-var_dump($entity1->nodeName, $entity1->parentNode->nodeName);
-var_dump($entity2->nodeName, $entity2->parentNode->nodeName);
+$entity = $doc->doctype->entities[0];
+var_dump($entity->nodeName, $entity->parentNode->nodeName);
 $doc->removeChild($doc->doctype);
-var_dump($entity1->nodeName, $entity1->parentNode);
-var_dump($entity2->nodeName, $entity2->parentNode);
+var_dump($entity->nodeName, $entity->parentNode);
 ?>
 --EXPECT--
 string(4) "test"
 string(5) "books"
-string(7) "myimage"
-string(5) "books"
 string(4) "test"
 NULL
-string(7) "myimage"
-NULL
diff --git a/ext/libxml/libxml.c b/ext/libxml/libxml.c
index 17afb8b99b2..1e0459aee72 100644
--- a/ext/libxml/libxml.c
+++ b/ext/libxml/libxml.c
@@ -208,10 +208,12 @@ static void php_libxml_node_free(xmlNodePtr node)
 			 * dtd is attached to the document. This works around the issue by inspecting the parent directly. */
 			case XML_ENTITY_DECL: {
 				xmlEntityPtr entity = (xmlEntityPtr) node;
-				if (entity->etype != XML_INTERNAL_PREDEFINED_ENTITY) {
-					php_libxml_unlink_entity_decl(entity);
-					xmlFreeEntity(entity);
+				php_libxml_unlink_entity_decl(entity);
+				if (entity->orig != NULL) {
+					xmlFree((char *) entity->orig);
+					entity->orig = NULL;
 				}
+				xmlFreeNode(node);
 				break;
 			}
 			case XML_NOTATION_NODE: {
@@ -1382,15 +1384,6 @@ PHP_LIBXML_API void php_libxml_node_free_resource(xmlNodePtr node)
 		case XML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
 		case XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
 			break;
-		case XML_ENTITY_REF_NODE:
-			/* Entity reference nodes are special: their children point to entity declarations,
-			 * but they don't own the declarations and therefore shouldn't free the children.
-			 * Moreover, there can be N>1 reference nodes for a single entity declarations. */
-			php_libxml_unregister_node(node);
-			if (node->parent == NULL) {
-				php_libxml_node_free(node);
-			}
-			break;
 		default:
 			if (node->parent == NULL || node->type == XML_NAMESPACE_DECL) {
 				php_libxml_node_free_list((xmlNodePtr) node->children);