diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 5579bda58a6dadc3b793b208e032e1cc6456ad33..041cb771d505a3412269aacaeaad586bdaa2d4c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ manipulate dentries:
   d_lookup: look up a dentry given its parent and path name component
 	It looks up the child of that given name from the dcache
 	hash table. If it is found, the reference count is incremented
-	and the dentry is returned. The caller must use d_put()
+	and the dentry is returned. The caller must use dput()
 	to free the dentry when it finishes using it.
 
 For further information on dentry locking, please refer to the document
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index eeafc14c2a14ec50f722a7f38d49460bf48c97e0..c231a639c2a210e7af10c73a006dba247493408c 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@ struct dentry *d_add_ci(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
  *
  * Searches the children of the parent dentry for the name in question. If
  * the dentry is found its reference count is incremented and the dentry
- * is returned. The caller must use d_put to free the entry when it has
+ * is returned. The caller must use dput to free the entry when it has
  * finished using it. %NULL is returned on failure.
  *
  * __d_lookup is dcache_lock free. The hash list is protected using RCU.