diff --git a/plugins/discovery-gce/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/plugin/discovery/gce/GceDiscoveryPlugin.java b/plugins/discovery-gce/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/plugin/discovery/gce/GceDiscoveryPlugin.java
index d355276ceae..2b92c4fd8c1 100644
--- a/plugins/discovery-gce/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/plugin/discovery/gce/GceDiscoveryPlugin.java
+++ b/plugins/discovery-gce/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/plugin/discovery/gce/GceDiscoveryPlugin.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public class GceDiscoveryPlugin extends Plugin {
     static {
         /*
          * GCE's http client changes access levels because its silly and we
-         * can't allow that on any old stack stack so we pull it here, up front,
+         * can't allow that on any old stack so we pull it here, up front,
          * so we can cleanly check the permissions for it. Without this changing
          * the permission can fail if any part of core is on the stack because
          * our plugin permissions don't allow core to "reach through" plugins to