diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
index fe36613589ae..d357b7ecb1fc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static int mkpdrlist(struct pda *pda)
 
 	pda->nrec = 0;
 	curroff = 0;
-	while (curroff < (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2) &&
+	while (curroff < (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2 - 1) &&
 	       le16_to_cpu(pda16[curroff + 1]) != HFA384x_PDR_END_OF_PDA) {
 		pda->rec[pda->nrec] = (hfa384x_pdrec_t *) &(pda16[curroff]);
 
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ static int mkpdrlist(struct pda *pda)
 		curroff += le16_to_cpu(pda16[curroff]) + 1;
 
 	}
-	if (curroff >= (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2)) {
+	if (curroff >= (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2 - 1)) {
 		pr_err("no end record found or invalid lengths in PDR data, exiting. %x %d\n",
 		       curroff, pda->nrec);
 		return 1;