diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c
index 31e0c8a3110d..5457a078690d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ int uffd_test_ctx_init(uint64_t features, const char **errmsg)
 	/*
 	 * After initialization of area_src, we must explicitly release pages
 	 * for area_dst to make sure it's fully empty.  Otherwise we could have
-	 * some area_dst pages be errornously initialized with zero pages,
+	 * some area_dst pages be erroneously initialized with zero pages,
 	 * hence we could hit memory corruption later in the test.
 	 *
 	 * One example is when THP is globally enabled, above allocate_area()