diff --git a/src/c++/tests/client_timeout_test.cc b/src/c++/tests/client_timeout_test.cc
index 91a8e2796..13e6ab5ec 100644
--- a/src/c++/tests/client_timeout_test.cc
+++ b/src/c++/tests/client_timeout_test.cc
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ TestTimeoutAPIs(
   COUNT_ERROR_MSGS(
       grpc_client->UnregisterCudaSharedMemory(memory_name, headers, timeout_ms),
       "Failed on UnregisterSystemSharedMemory", count);
-  if (count > 0 && count == 18) {
+  if (count > 0 && count != 18) {
     std::cerr << "error count: " << count
               << " which is not 0 nor expected number of APIs that are "
                  "expected to fail (18)"