diff --git a/clang/include/clang/AST/CommentCommands.td b/clang/include/clang/AST/CommentCommands.td
--- a/clang/include/clang/AST/CommentCommands.td
+++ b/clang/include/clang/AST/CommentCommands.td
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
 def A      : InlineCommand<"a">;
 def E      : InlineCommand<"e">;
 def Em     : InlineCommand<"em">;
+def Ref    : InlineCommand<"ref">;
 def Anchor : InlineCommand<"anchor">;
 
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
@@ -205,7 +206,6 @@
 
 def Mainpage : VerbatimLineCommand<"mainpage">;
 def Subpage  : VerbatimLineCommand<"subpage">;
-def Ref      : VerbatimLineCommand<"ref">;
 
 def Relates     : VerbatimLineCommand<"relates">;
 def Related     : VerbatimLineCommand<"related">;
diff --git a/clang/test/Sema/warn-documentation.cpp b/clang/test/Sema/warn-documentation.cpp
--- a/clang/test/Sema/warn-documentation.cpp
+++ b/clang/test/Sema/warn-documentation.cpp
@@ -294,6 +294,9 @@
 /// \retval 0 Blah blah.
 int test_param23(int a);
 
+/// \param a \ref test_param23 has an empty paragraph, this doesn't.
+int test_param24(int a);
+
 //===---
 // Test that we treat typedefs to some non-function types as functions for the
 // purposes of documentation comment parsing.