diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 8df7f64c6db3..f0176e1a5a81 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2017,7 +2017,7 @@ out:
  * netlink_set_err - report error to broadcast listeners
  * @ssk: the kernel netlink socket, as returned by netlink_kernel_create()
  * @portid: the PORTID of a process that we want to skip (if any)
- * @groups: the broadcast group that will notice the error
+ * @group: the broadcast group that will notice the error
  * @code: error code, must be negative (as usual in kernelspace)
  *
  * This function returns the number of broadcast listeners that have set the