diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 69e6ba7c407b..486394624853 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ out:
  * @seq: seq number to check @dentry against
  * Returns: true on success, false on failure
  *
- * Similar to to try_to_unlazy(), but here we have the next dentry already
+ * Similar to try_to_unlazy(), but here we have the next dentry already
  * picked by rcu-walk and want to legitimize that in addition to the current
  * nd->path and nd->root for ref-walk mode.  Must be called from rcu-walk context.
  * Nothing should touch nameidata between try_to_unlazy_next() failure and