diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index e7ed6f8304f4..8b8508adf9c2 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2521,7 +2521,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace);
 #endif
 
 /*
- * Slow patch handling. This may still be called frequently since objects
+ * Slow path handling. This may still be called frequently since objects
  * have a longer lifetime than the cpu slabs in most processing loads.
  *
  * So we still attempt to reduce cache line usage. Just take the slab