1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 628fd3e24731..ef1811531999 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ static int free_tail_pages_check(struct page *head_page, struct page *page)
         }
         switch (page - head_page) {
         case 1:
-                /* the first tail page: ->mapping is compound_mapcount() */
+                /* the first tail page: ->mapping may be compound_mapcount() */
                 if (unlikely(compound_mapcount(page))) {
                         bad_page(page, "nonzero compound_mapcount", 0);
                         goto out;