diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
index c3b7940a8b7..46791941f26 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
@@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ public class Bytes {
 
   /**
    * @param a left operand
-   * @param b right operand
+   * @param buf right operand
    * @return True if equal
    */
   public static boolean equals(byte[] a, ByteBuffer buf) {