[PATCH] block: fix typos in comments

From: Hemanth Selam

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 07:05:55 EST


Fix typos in comments, reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using the
misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt. Only touches comments, no code
changes.

Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@xxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-cgroup-rwstat.c | 2 +-
block/blk-iocost.c | 6 +++---
block/blk-iolatency.c | 4 ++--
block/blk-merge.c | 2 +-
block/blk-mq.c | 2 +-
block/ioprio.c | 2 +-
block/opal_proto.h | 4 ++--
block/partitions/sun.c | 2 +-
block/sed-opal.c | 2 +-
drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 2 +-
drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h | 2 +-
drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 2 +-
12 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup-rwstat.c b/block/blk-cgroup-rwstat.c
index 2e9bf081cce2..ab87b33a29b0 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup-rwstat.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup-rwstat.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkg_rwstat_exit);
* @pd: policy private data of interest
* @rwstat: rwstat to print
*
- * Print @rwstat to @sf for the device assocaited with @pd.
+ * Print @rwstat to @sf for the device associated with @pd.
*/
u64 __blkg_prfill_rwstat(struct seq_file *sf, struct blkg_policy_data *pd,
const struct blkg_rwstat_sample *rwstat)
diff --git a/block/blk-iocost.c b/block/blk-iocost.c
index 2745bffcd5ee..c14b79a5b2b0 100644
--- a/block/blk-iocost.c
+++ b/block/blk-iocost.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
* gets 300/(100+300) or 75% share, and A0 and A1 equally splits the rest,
* 12.5% each. The distribution mechanism only cares about these flattened
* shares. They're called hweights (hierarchical weights) and always add
- * upto 1 (WEIGHT_ONE).
+ * up to 1 (WEIGHT_ONE).
*
* A given cgroup's vtime runs slower in inverse proportion to its hweight.
* For example, with 12.5% weight, A0's time runs 8 times slower (100/12.5)
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ static int ioc_autop_idx(struct ioc *ioc, struct gendisk *disk)
}

/*
- * Take the followings as input
+ * Take the following as input
*
* @bps maximum sequential throughput
* @seqiops maximum sequential 4k iops
@@ -2154,7 +2154,7 @@ static void ioc_forgive_debts(struct ioc *ioc, u64 usage_us_sum, int nr_debtors,
}

/*
- * Check the active iocgs' state to avoid oversleeping and deactive
+ * Check the active iocgs' state to avoid oversleeping and deactivate
* idle iocgs.
*
* Since waiters determine the sleep durations based on the vrate
diff --git a/block/blk-iolatency.c b/block/blk-iolatency.c
index 2caa79a008ad..cd85809586a6 100644
--- a/block/blk-iolatency.c
+++ b/block/blk-iolatency.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
* every configured node, and each configured node has it's own independent
* queue depth. This means that we only care about our latency targets at the
* peer level. Some group at the bottom of the hierarchy isn't going to affect
- * a group at the end of some other path if we're only configred at leaf level.
+ * a group at the end of some other path if we're only configured at leaf level.
*
* Consider the following
*
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
* throttle "unloved", but nobody else.
*
* In this example "fast", "slow", and "normal" will be the only groups actually
- * accounting their io latencies. We have to walk up the heirarchy to the root
+ * accounting their io latencies. We have to walk up the hierarchy to the root
* on every submit and complete so we can do the appropriate stat recording and
* adjust the queue depth of ourselves if needed.
*
diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index 258a726071d1..6b87b0d34f34 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ int bio_split_io_at(struct bio *bio, const struct queue_limits *lim,
* there may either be too many discontiguous vectors for the max
* segments limit, or contain virtual boundary gaps without having a
* valid block sized split. A zero byte result means one of those
- * conditions occured.
+ * conditions occurred.
*/
bytes = ALIGN_DOWN(bytes, bio_split_alignment(bio, lim));
if (!bytes)
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index a26a11c73ee3..a1c3cf269072 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -2358,7 +2358,7 @@ void blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_mq_run_hw_queue);

/*
- * Return prefered queue to dispatch from (if any) for non-mq aware IO
+ * Return preferred queue to dispatch from (if any) for non-mq aware IO
* scheduler.
*/
static struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *blk_mq_get_sq_hctx(struct request_queue *q)
diff --git a/block/ioprio.c b/block/ioprio.c
index f0ee2798539c..69af8831a5b2 100644
--- a/block/ioprio.c
+++ b/block/ioprio.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static int get_task_ioprio(struct task_struct *p)
* Return raw IO priority value as set by userspace. We use this for
* ioprio_get(pid, IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS) so that we keep historical behavior and
* also so that userspace can distinguish unset IO priority (which just gets
- * overriden based on task's nice value) from IO priority set to some value.
+ * overridden based on task's nice value) from IO priority set to some value.
*/
static int get_task_raw_ioprio(struct task_struct *p)
{
diff --git a/block/opal_proto.h b/block/opal_proto.h
index 7c24247aa186..3224452fa53d 100644
--- a/block/opal_proto.h
+++ b/block/opal_proto.h
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ enum opal_revertlsp {

/* Packets derived from:
* TCG_Storage_Architecture_Core_Spec_v2.01_r1.00
- * Secion: 3.2.3 ComPackets, Packets & Subpackets
+ * Section: 3.2.3 ComPackets, Packets & Subpackets
*/

/* Comm Packet (header) for transmissions. */
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ struct d0_single_user_mode {
};

/*
- * Additonal Datastores feature
+ * Additional Datastores feature
*
* code == 0x0202
*/
diff --git a/block/partitions/sun.c b/block/partitions/sun.c
index 92c645fcd2e0..bf51227727d6 100644
--- a/block/partitions/sun.c
+++ b/block/partitions/sun.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ int sun_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)

/*
* So that old Linux-Sun partitions continue to work,
- * alow the VTOC to be used under the additional condition ...
+ * allow the VTOC to be used under the additional condition ...
*/
use_vtoc = use_vtoc || !(label->vtoc.sanity ||
label->vtoc.version || label->vtoc.nparts);
diff --git a/block/sed-opal.c b/block/sed-opal.c
index 79b290d9458a..4749a5e63051 100644
--- a/block/sed-opal.c
+++ b/block/sed-opal.c
@@ -2114,7 +2114,7 @@ static int set_lr_boolean_ace(struct opal_dev *dev,
/*
* Add boolean operator in postfix only with
* two or more authorities being added in ACE
- * expresion.
+ * expression.
* */
if (u > 0)
add_boolean_object_ref(&err, dev, OPAL_BOOLEAN_OR);
diff --git a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c
index 113bdb868c46..0893e2cd9e95 100644
--- a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c
+++ b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c
@@ -2679,7 +2679,7 @@ static int mtip_hw_get_identify(struct driver_data *dd)
}
}

- /* get write protect progess */
+ /* get write protect progress */
memset(&attr242, 0, sizeof(struct smart_attr));
if (mtip_get_smart_attr(dd->port, 242, &attr242))
dev_warn(&dd->pdev->dev,
diff --git a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h
index 0963c07b5845..064afcc9c8fb 100644
--- a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h
+++ b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
/* Offset of Subsystem Device ID in pci confoguration space */
#define PCI_SUBSYSTEM_DEVICEID 0x2E

-/* offset of Device Control register in PCIe extended capabilites space */
+/* offset of Device Control register in PCIe extended capabilities space */
#define PCIE_CONFIG_EXT_DEVICE_CONTROL_OFFSET 0x48

/* check for erase mode support during secure erase */
diff --git a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
index 6c5bec7da97c..b9daf0c11ef7 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
@@ -2529,7 +2529,7 @@ static void ublk_ch_release_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
*
* Wait until active references are dropped for avoiding use-after-free
*
- * registered buffer may be unregistered in io_ring's release hander,
+ * registered buffer may be unregistered in io_ring's release handler,
* so have to wait by scheduling work function for avoiding the two
* file release dependency.
*/
--
2.48.1