diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index 1b3c0ed5f797b59973d888faa9ac907451722d3c..0099d64a9c6356c5ff9a348dc306de715d82eb37 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -8236,7 +8236,7 @@ abi_long do_syscall(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1,
 #ifdef TARGET_NR_madvise
     case TARGET_NR_madvise:
         /* A straight passthrough may not be safe because qemu sometimes
-           turns private flie-backed mappings into anonymous mappings.
+           turns private file-backed mappings into anonymous mappings.
            This will break MADV_DONTNEED.
            This is a hint, so ignoring and returning success is ok.  */
         ret = get_errno(0);