diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 69a2935daf6c..68b2ba510674 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16818,7 +16818,7 @@ S390
 M:	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
 M:	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
 M:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
-R:	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
+M:	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
 R:	Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
 L:	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Supported