diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 05fd080b82f3..288c0c0507f2 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -10468,9 +10468,9 @@ F:	tools/testing/selftests/
 
 KERNEL SMB3 SERVER (KSMBD)
 M:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
-M:	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
 M:	Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
 M:	Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>
+R:	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
 L:	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 T:	git git://git.samba.org/ksmbd.git