diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index f0f2e5244..503ba4e8a 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ In older Linux kernels, the
 and
 .B SIGKILL
 signals delivered when a process encountered the soft and hard
-.B RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
+.B RLIMIT_CPU
 limits were delivered one (CPU) second later than they should have been.
 This was fixed in kernel 2.6.8.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"