diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ca5d37337f..f9854eda1d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-01-05  Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
+
+	* posix/tst-spawn.c (do_test): Extend spargv to new required size and
+	fix typo.
+
 2019-01-04  Martin Jansa  <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
 
 	[BZ #19444]
diff --git a/posix/tst-spawn.c b/posix/tst-spawn.c
index b45e0d885e..eea5addbf3 100644
--- a/posix/tst-spawn.c
+++ b/posix/tst-spawn.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ do_test (int argc, char *argv[])
   char fd4name[18];
   char fd5name[18];
   char *name3_copy;
-  char *spargv[12];
+  char *spargv[13];
   int i;
 
   /* We must have
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ do_test (int argc, char *argv[])
        + the newly opened file descriptor
        + the duped second descriptor
        + the name of the closed descriptor
-       + the duped fourth dile descriptor which O_CLOEXEC should be
+       + the duped fourth file descriptor which O_CLOEXEC should be
 	 remove by adddup2.
   */
   if (argc != (restart ? 7 : 2) && argc != (restart ? 7 : 5))