diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 12da5db..2bd671a 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
  *   for a &struct bio to become free. If a %NULL @bs is passed in, we will
  *   fall back to just using @kmalloc to allocate the required memory.
  *
- *   Note that the caller must set ->bi_destructor on succesful return
+ *   Note that the caller must set ->bi_destructor on successful return
  *   of a bio, to do the appropriate freeing of the bio once the reference
  *   count drops to zero.
  **/