diff --git a/pkg/config/config.go b/pkg/config/config.go
index 9c8d2e30e..ea59db575 100644
--- a/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ type PluginConfig struct {
 	// TolerateMissingHugePagesCgroupController if set to false will error out on create/update
 	// container requests with huge page limits if the cgroup controller for hugepages is not present.
 	// This helps with supporting Kubernetes <=1.18 out of the box. (default is `true`)
-	TolerateMissingHugePagesCgroupController bool `toml:"tolerate_missing_hugepages_controller" json:"tolerateMissingHugePagesCgroupController"`
+	TolerateMissingHugePagesCgroupController bool `toml:"tolerate_missing_hugepages_cgroup_controller" json:"tolerateMissingHugePagesCgroupController"`
 	// IgnoreImageDefinedVolumes ignores volumes defined by the image. Useful for better resource
 	// isolation, security and early detection of issues in the mount configuration when using
 	// ReadOnlyRootFilesystem since containers won't silently mount a temporary volume.
diff --git a/pkg/containerd/opts/spec_unix.go b/pkg/containerd/opts/spec_unix.go
index d72d81562..18a88da50 100644
--- a/pkg/containerd/opts/spec_unix.go
+++ b/pkg/containerd/opts/spec_unix.go
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ func WithResources(resources *runtime.LinuxContainerResources, tolerateMissingHu
 		} else {
 			if !tolerateMissingHugePagesCgroupController {
 				return errors.Errorf("huge pages limits are specified but hugetlb cgroup controller is missing. " +
-					"Please set tolerate_missing_hugepages_controller to `true` to ignore this error")
+					"Please set tolerate_missing_hugepages_cgroup_controller to `true` to ignore this error")
 			}
 			logrus.Warn("hugetlb cgroup controller is absent. skipping huge pages limits")
 		}