diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 32abd426a9..2451ba70d5 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-07-03  Simon Marchi  <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+	* buffer.h (buffer_finish): Fix spelling mistakes.
+
 2017-07-01  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
 	* .dir-locals.el: Automatically switch to C-style comments in
diff --git a/gdb/common/buffer.h b/gdb/common/buffer.h
index 2432a06932..90535ca124 100644
--- a/gdb/common/buffer.h
+++ b/gdb/common/buffer.h
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ void buffer_free (struct buffer *buffer);
 /* Initialize BUFFER.  BUFFER holds no memory afterwards.  */
 void buffer_init (struct buffer *buffer);
 
-/* Return a pointer into BUFFER data, effectivelly transfering
+/* Return a pointer into BUFFER data, effectively transferring
    ownership of the buffer memory to the caller.  Calling buffer_free
    afterwards has no effect on the returned data.  */
 char* buffer_finish (struct buffer *buffer);