diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index 9deec43911871c1107a17e764fd2d8a7ffffb361..9f34dec6ff8ec0cd70acfb72e594f016c60a36a8 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ static int sctp_send_asconf_del_ip(struct sock		*sk,
  * addrs is a pointer to an array of one or more socket addresses. Each
  * address is contained in its appropriate structure (i.e. struct
  * sockaddr_in or struct sockaddr_in6) the family of the address type
- * must be used to distengish the address length (note that this
+ * must be used to distinguish the address length (note that this
  * representation is termed a "packed array" of addresses). The caller
  * specifies the number of addresses in the array with addrcnt.
  *