diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/doc/rcu-test-image.txt b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/doc/rcu-test-image.txt
index 66efb59a1bd1..449cf579d6f9 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/doc/rcu-test-image.txt
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/doc/rcu-test-image.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This document describes one way to created the rcu-test-image file
+This document describes one way to create the rcu-test-image file
 that contains the filesystem used by the guest-OS kernel.  There are
 probably much better ways of doing this, and this filesystem could no
 doubt be smaller.  It is probably also possible to simply download