diff --git a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/init.c b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/init.c
index 7ad9eb182514..4dd8051aba7e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/init.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/init.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(hdrq_entsize, "Size of header queue entries: 2 - 8B, 16 - 64B (
 
 unsigned int user_credit_return_threshold = 33;	/* default is 33% */
 module_param(user_credit_return_threshold, uint, S_IRUGO);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(user_credit_return_theshold, "Credit return threshold for user send contexts, return when unreturned credits passes this many blocks (in percent of allocated blocks, 0 is off)");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(user_credit_return_threshold, "Credit return threshold for user send contexts, return when unreturned credits passes this many blocks (in percent of allocated blocks, 0 is off)");
 
 static inline u64 encode_rcv_header_entry_size(u16);