diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c b/sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c
index ac60f1301e21..91565229d074 100644
--- a/sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c
+++ b/sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c
@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ int sst_hsw_stream_reset(struct sst_hsw *hsw, struct sst_hsw_stream *stream)
 		return 0;
 
 	/* wait for pause to complete before we reset the stream */
-	while (stream->running && tries--)
+	while (stream->running && --tries)
 		msleep(1);
 	if (!tries) {
 		dev_err(hsw->dev, "error: reset stream %d still running\n",