diff --git a/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_kloop.c b/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_kloop.c
index c40bbafd60a..d9cf13a89f8 100644
--- a/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_kloop.c
+++ b/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_kloop.c
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ netmap_sync_kloop(struct netmap_priv_d *priv, struct nmreq_header *hdr)
 			 * so that if a notification on ring Y comes after
 			 * we have processed ring Y, but before we call
 			 * schedule(), we don't miss it. This is true because
-			 * the wake up function will change the the task state,
+			 * the wake up function will change the task state,
 			 * and therefore the schedule_timeout() call below
 			 * will observe the change).
 			 */