diff --git a/src/core/supplicant/nm-supplicant-interface.c b/src/core/supplicant/nm-supplicant-interface.c
index b59203d7a0..b165b86d4b 100644
--- a/src/core/supplicant/nm-supplicant-interface.c
+++ b/src/core/supplicant/nm-supplicant-interface.c
@@ -1911,7 +1911,7 @@ _properties_changed_main(NMSupplicantInterface *self, GVariant *properties)
 
     if (nm_g_variant_lookup(properties, "CurrentBSS", "&o", &v_s)) {
         v_s = nm_dbus_path_not_empty(v_s);
-        if (!nm_ref_string_equals_str(priv->current_bss, v_s)) {
+        if (!nm_ref_string_equal_str(priv->current_bss, v_s)) {
             nm_ref_string_unref(priv->current_bss);
             priv->current_bss     = nm_ref_string_new(v_s);
             do_notify_current_bss = TRUE;
diff --git a/src/libnm-glib-aux/nm-ref-string.h b/src/libnm-glib-aux/nm-ref-string.h
index ea40bc6ed5..df37d5834b 100644
--- a/src/libnm-glib-aux/nm-ref-string.h
+++ b/src/libnm-glib-aux/nm-ref-string.h
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ nm_ref_string_cmp(NMRefString *a, NMRefString *b)
 #define NM_CMP_DIRECT_REF_STRING(a, b) NM_CMP_RETURN_DIRECT(nm_ref_string_cmp((a), (b)))
 
 static inline gboolean
-nm_ref_string_equals_str(NMRefString *rstr, const char *str)
+nm_ref_string_equal_str(NMRefString *rstr, const char *str)
 {
     if (!str)
         return (!!rstr);