diff --git a/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
index 483b72aa7c11..71b4b45c3505 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ To quote the overview comment::
 	for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected
 	to be rare we hope we can get away with this.
 
-The code consists of a the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c,
+The code consists of the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c,
 a new page poison bit and various checks in the VM to handle poisoned
 pages.