diff --git a/tokio/src/net/udp.rs b/tokio/src/net/udp.rs
index 89414259c5e..ec3d1164a5b 100644
--- a/tokio/src/net/udp.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/net/udp.rs
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ impl UdpSocket {
     ///
     /// # Cancel safety
     ///
-    /// This method is cancel safe. If `recv_from` is used as the event in a
+    /// This method is cancel safe. If `recv` is used as the event in a
     /// [`tokio::select!`](crate::select) statement and some other branch
     /// completes first, it is guaranteed that no messages were received on this
     /// socket.