diff --git a/src/util/virstring.c b/src/util/virstring.c
index b2ebce27ff..0cb06bdc9d 100644
--- a/src/util/virstring.c
+++ b/src/util/virstring.c
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ int virStringSortRevCompare(const void *a, const void *b)
  * @str: string to search
  * @regexp: POSIX Extended regular expression pattern used for matching
  * @max_matches: maximum number of substrings to return
- * @result: pointer to an array to be filled with NULL terminated list of matches
+ * @matches: pointer to an array to be filled with NULL terminated list of matches
  *
  * Performs a POSIX extended regex search against a string and return all matching substrings.
  * The @result value should be freed with virStringListFree() when no longer