diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index 84648f751fbd..1d147ef047f7 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ xfs_map_blocks(
  * reference to the ioend to ensure that the ioend completion is only done once
  * all bios have been submitted and the ioend is really done.
  *
- * If @fail is non-zero, it means that we have a situation where some part of
+ * If @status is non-zero, it means that we have a situation where some part of
  * the submission process has failed after we have marked paged for writeback
  * and unlocked them. In this situation, we need to fail the bio and ioend
  * rather than submit it to IO. This typically only happens on a filesystem