diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 57a6aedf6649..30ce722c23fa 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@ unlock:
  * vm. If we swap it in we mark it dirty since we also free the swap
  * entry since a page cannot live in both the swap and page cache.
  *
- * fault_mm and fault_type are only supplied by shmem_fault:
+ * vmf and fault_type are only supplied by shmem_fault:
  * otherwise they are NULL.
  */
 static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,