diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 0c3974cd3ecd55670ccab51c596b0b141cbdd721..e818ed135df02f63e901a09bc1f93944f237bda5 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static bool legitimize_links(struct nameidata *nd)
  * Path walking has 2 modes, rcu-walk and ref-walk (see
  * Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt).  In situations when we can't
  * continue in RCU mode, we attempt to drop out of rcu-walk mode and grab
- * normal reference counts on dentries and vfsmounts to transition to rcu-walk
+ * normal reference counts on dentries and vfsmounts to transition to ref-walk
  * mode.  Refcounts are grabbed at the last known good point before rcu-walk
  * got stuck, so ref-walk may continue from there. If this is not successful
  * (eg. a seqcount has changed), then failure is returned and it's up to caller