doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference"

paulmckrcu · paulmckrcu · commit 6e6eca2ee79a · 2019-12-10T18:51:54.000-08:00
Reported-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ With this change, the rcu_dereference() is always within an RCU
 read-side critical section, which again would have suppressed the
 above lockdep-RCU splat.
 
-But in this particular case, we don't actually deference the pointer
+But in this particular case, we don't actually dereference the pointer
 returned from rcu_dereference().  Instead, that pointer is just compared
 to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced
 by rcu_access_pointer() as follows:
