diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/cm/container_manager_linux.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/cm/container_manager_linux.go
index b820a8126a7..74d00be6622 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/cm/container_manager_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/cm/container_manager_linux.go
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ func (m *containerManager) doWork() {
 		glog.Errorf("Unable to parse docker version %q: %v", v.APIVersion, err)
 		return
 	}
-	// EnsureDockerInConatiner does two things.
+	// EnsureDockerInContainer does two things.
 	//   1. Ensure processes run in the cgroups if m.cgroupsManager is not nil.
 	//   2. Ensure processes have the OOM score applied.
 	if err := kubecm.EnsureDockerInContainer(version, dockerOOMScoreAdj, m.cgroupsManager); err != nil {