diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/core/op_registration/op_whitelist.h b/aten/src/ATen/core/op_registration/op_whitelist.h
index 26d5533244d7..f93462bb2cfa 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/core/op_registration/op_whitelist.h
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/core/op_registration/op_whitelist.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * set of operators (+ dependencies) included.
  *
  * - Build with -DTORCH_OPERATOR_WHITELIST="aten::add;aten::sub" and only these
- *   two ops will be included in your build.  The whitelist records operators
+ *   two ops will be included in your build.  The allowlist records operators
  *   only, no overloads; if you include aten::add, all overloads of aten::add
  *   will be included.
  *
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
  * operator functions that weren't registered.
  * See Note [Selective build] for more details
  *
- * WARNING: The whitelist mechanism doesn't work for all ways you could go about
+ * WARNING: The allowlist mechanism doesn't work for all ways you could go about
  * registering an operator.  If the dispatch key / operator name is not
- * sufficiently obvious at compile time, then the whitelisting mechanism
+ * sufficiently obvious at compile time, then the allowlisting mechanism
  * will fail (and the operator will be included in the binary anyway).
  */
 
@@ -33,21 +33,21 @@ namespace c10 {
 
 namespace impl {
 
-// returns true iff whitelist contains item
+// returns true iff allowlist contains item
 // op_whitelist_contains("a;bc;d", "bc") == true
-constexpr bool op_whitelist_contains(string_view whitelist, string_view item) {
+constexpr bool op_whitelist_contains(string_view allowlist, string_view item) {
     //Choose a really big value for next so that if something goes wrong
     //this code will blow up in a hopefully detectable way.
     size_t next = std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max();
-    for (size_t cur = 0; cur <= whitelist.size(); cur = next) {
-      next = whitelist.find(';', cur);
+    for (size_t cur = 0; cur <= allowlist.size(); cur = next) {
+      next = allowlist.find(';', cur);
       if (next != string_view::npos) {
-        if (whitelist.substr(cur, next - cur).compare(item) == 0) {
+        if (allowlist.substr(cur, next - cur).compare(item) == 0) {
           return true;
         }
         next++;
       } else {
-        if (whitelist.substr(cur).compare(item) == 0) {
+        if (allowlist.substr(cur).compare(item) == 0) {
           return true;
         }
         break;
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ constexpr bool op_whitelist_contains(string_view whitelist, string_view item) {
     return false;
 }
 
-// Returns true iff the given op name is on the whitelist
+// Returns true iff the given op name is on the allowlist
 // and should be registered
 constexpr bool op_whitelist_check(string_view op_name) {
   assert(op_name.find("::") != string_view::npos);
@@ -68,16 +68,16 @@ constexpr bool op_whitelist_check(string_view op_name) {
   return op_whitelist_contains(
     C10_STRINGIZE(TORCH_OPERATOR_WHITELIST),
     // This function is majorly used for mobile selective build with
-    // root operators, where the overload is included in the whitelist.
+    // root operators, where the overload is included in the allowlist.
     op_name);
-    // // Strip overload name (as whitelist doesn't contain overloads)
+    // // Strip overload name (as allowlist doesn't contain overloads)
     // // Another function based on this may be added when there's usage
     // // on op names without overload.
     // OperatorNameView::parse(op_name).name);
 #endif
 }
 
-// Returns true iff the given schema string is on the whitelist
+// Returns true iff the given schema string is on the allowlist
 // and should be registered
 constexpr bool schema_whitelist_check(string_view schema) {
 #if defined(TORCH_FORCE_SCHEMA_REGISTRATION)
@@ -88,12 +88,12 @@ constexpr bool schema_whitelist_check(string_view schema) {
 }
 
 // schema_whitelist_check() implicitly depends on a macro, TORCH_OPERATOR_WHITELIST.
-// Add this API to pass arbitrary whitelist.
-constexpr bool op_whitelist_contains_name_in_schema(string_view whitelist, string_view schema) {
-  return op_whitelist_contains(whitelist, schema.substr(0, schema.find("(")));
+// Add this API to pass arbitrary allowlist.
+constexpr bool op_whitelist_contains_name_in_schema(string_view allowlist, string_view schema) {
+  return op_whitelist_contains(allowlist, schema.substr(0, schema.find("(")));
 }
 
-// Returns true iff the given dispatch key is on the whitelist
+// Returns true iff the given dispatch key is on the allowlist
 // and should be registered.  When we turn this on, the list of valid
 // mobile dispatch keys is hard coded (but you need to make sure
 // that you have the correct set of dispatch keys for this).
diff --git a/torch/quantization/quantization_mappings.py b/torch/quantization/quantization_mappings.py
index 802d81d3ca0c..febc839e9093 100644
--- a/torch/quantization/quantization_mappings.py
+++ b/torch/quantization/quantization_mappings.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
     nn.RNNCell: nnqd.RNNCell,
 }
 
-# Whitelist for propagating the qconfig
+# Allowlist for propagating the qconfig
 _INCLUDE_QCONFIG_PROPAGATE_LIST : Set[Callable] = {
     nn.Sequential,
 }