diff --git a/src/tests/stream-tcp-list.c b/src/tests/stream-tcp-list.c
index 428b391408..d10c756bd9 100644
--- a/src/tests/stream-tcp-list.c
+++ b/src/tests/stream-tcp-list.c
@@ -28,9 +28,8 @@
 
 static int VALIDATE(TcpStream *stream, uint8_t *data, uint32_t data_len)
 {
-    if (StreamingBufferCompareRawData(&stream->sb,
-                data, data_len) == 0)
-    {
+    // HACK: these tests should be updated to check the SBB blocks
+    if (memcmp(stream->sb.region.buf, data, data_len) != 0) {
         SCReturnInt(0);
     }
     SCLogInfo("OK");