Systems and methods are disclosed herein that allow a radio access node to command a wireless device to clear parts of a soft buffer for a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process. In some embodiments, a method for a wireless device in a wireless communications system comprises receiving control information comprising information pertaining to whether the wireless device should partially clear a soft buffer for a HARQ process, deciding whether to partially clear the soft buffer for the HARQ process based on the information comprised in the control information, and partially clearing the soft buffer for the HARQ process upon deciding to partially clear the soft buffer for the HARQ process. In this manner, corrupted soft information can be cleared from the soft buffer while retaining uncorrupted soft information in the soft buffer.