diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index fef80bfdc7a4f633f9eb3b2371a67b3c0357b7c5..1898198abc3d10ed4126c73ab24035f0c796a877 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2710,7 +2710,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(mkdir, const char __user *, pathname, umode_t, mode)
 
 /*
  * The dentry_unhash() helper will try to drop the dentry early: we
- * should have a usage count of 2 if we're the only user of this
+ * should have a usage count of 1 if we're the only user of this
  * dentry, and if that is true (possibly after pruning the dcache),
  * then we drop the dentry now.
  *