diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index f5b6a0d1a67c65aea722281c0d26abd11ce36c1b..a849e06f861cd20a6b6c2573536a54691f6cf11a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev, int force_change)
 
 }
 
-/* words written to sysfs files may, or my not, be \n terminated.
+/* words written to sysfs files may, or may not, be \n terminated.
  * We want to accept with case. For this we use cmd_match.
  */
 static int cmd_match(const char *cmd, const char *str)