diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index fa36d76..20af62f 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
 	 * we do not require it to remember exactly which old buffers it
 	 * has reserved.  This is consistent with the existing behaviour
 	 * that multiple jbd2_journal_get_write_access() calls to the same
-	 * buffer are perfectly permissable.
+	 * buffer are perfectly permissible.
 	 */
 	while (commit_transaction->t_reserved_list) {
 		jh = commit_transaction->t_reserved_list;