diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 0d0ecdb37403..d4d2932a99cc 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2855,7 +2855,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 			 */
 			nr_pages_request = min(100U, nr_pages - nr_allocated);
 
-			/* memory allocation should consider mempolicy, we cant
+			/* memory allocation should consider mempolicy, we can't
 			 * wrongly use nearest node when nid == NUMA_NO_NODE,
 			 * otherwise memory may be allocated in only one node,
 			 * but mempolcy want to alloc memory by interleaving.