Clarify the check to make sure the number of bytes to free is not
more than the number of bytes allocated.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Abbott <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c 
b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c
index 5e08266..246f577 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c
@@ -313,14 +313,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(comedi_buf_read_alloc);
 /* transfers control of a chunk from reader to free buffer space */
 unsigned comedi_buf_read_free(struct comedi_async *async, unsigned int nbytes)
 {
+       unsigned allocated;
+
        /* barrier insures data has been read out of
         * buffer before read count is incremented */
        smp_mb();
-       if ((int)(async->buf_read_count + nbytes -
-                 async->buf_read_alloc_count) > 0) {
+       allocated = comedi_buf_read_n_allocated(async);
+       if (nbytes > allocated) {
                dev_info(async->subdevice->device->class_dev,
                         "attempted to read-free more bytes than have been 
read-allocated.\n");
-               nbytes = async->buf_read_alloc_count - async->buf_read_count;
+               nbytes = allocated;
        }
        async->buf_read_count += nbytes;
        async->buf_read_ptr += nbytes;
-- 
1.8.0

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