this change is being made to fix a crash when current_data < 0 in buffer
linearization function
Ticket: N/A
Type: fix
Fixes: f883f6a1132ad4bb7aa9d9a79d420274fbcf3b64
Change-Id: Ia4ede823f673780e0c30d075b091db42e183650d
Signed-off-by: Klement Sekera <ksekera@cisco.com>