diff --git a/drivers/mfd/wm8350-core.c b/drivers/mfd/wm8350-core.c
index e5e82c7cc5236a3ceee7e787cabe94edef284cbc..ea3801833176a32b001eddbbf43212b2ee9e9334 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/wm8350-core.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/wm8350-core.c
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ int wm8350_read_auxadc(struct wm8350 *wm8350, int channel, int scale, int vref)
 	do {
 		schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);
 		reg = wm8350_reg_read(wm8350, WM8350_DIGITISER_CONTROL_1);
-	} while (tries-- && (reg & WM8350_AUXADC_POLL));
+	} while (--tries && (reg & WM8350_AUXADC_POLL));
 
 	if (!tries)
 		dev_err(wm8350->dev, "adc chn %d read timeout\n", channel);