diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 78b6741ae593..f49eb4d4be75 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -6185,7 +6185,7 @@ static inline bool upgrade_mmap_lock_carefully(struct mm_struct *mm, struct pt_r
 /*
  * Helper for page fault handling.
  *
- * This is kind of equivalend to "mmap_read_lock()" followed
+ * This is kind of equivalent to "mmap_read_lock()" followed
  * by "find_extend_vma()", except it's a lot more careful about
  * the locking (and will drop the lock on failure).
  *