[PATCH] fs: fix typos in comments

From: Hemanth Selam

Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 02:42:29 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>
---
fs/aio.c | 4 ++--
fs/coredump.c | 2 +-
fs/fs-writeback.c | 6 +++---
fs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/namespace.c | 2 +-
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
7 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index d78acc69f487..685525aef7a3 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ static int kill_ioctx(struct mm_struct *mm, struct kioctx *ctx,

/*
* exit_aio: called when the last user of mm goes away. At this point, there is
- * no way for any new requests to be submited or any of the io_* syscalls to be
+ * no way for any new requests to be submitted or any of the io_* syscalls to be
* called on the context.
*
* There may be outstanding kiocbs, but free_ioctx() will explicitly wait on
@@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@ static long aio_read_events_ring(struct kioctx *ctx,
* The mutex can block and wake us up and that will cause
* wait_event_interruptible_hrtimeout() to schedule without sleeping
* and repeat. This should be rare enough that it doesn't cause
- * peformance issues. See the comment in read_events() for more detail.
+ * performance issues. See the comment in read_events() for more detail.
*/
sched_annotate_sleep();
mutex_lock(&ctx->ring_lock);
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index ac3cd74808c6..2e8f247efd65 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ static bool coredump_write(struct core_name *cn,
cn->core_dumped = binfmt->core_dump(cprm);
/*
* Ensures that file size is big enough to contain the current
- * file postion. This prevents gdb from complaining about
+ * file position. This prevents gdb from complaining about
* a truncated file if the last "write" to the file was
* dump_skip.
*/
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index e744f9f9d43f..f303936446da 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ void wb_wait_for_completion(struct wb_completion *done)
* Parameters for foreign inode detection, see wbc_detach_inode() to see
* how they're used.
*
- * These paramters are inherently heuristical as the detection target
+ * These parameters are inherently heuristical as the detection target
* itself is fuzzy. All we want to do is detaching an inode from the
* current owner if it's being written to by some other cgroups too much.
*
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ void wb_wait_for_completion(struct wb_completion *done)
* to 16 slots. To avoid tiny writes from swinging the decision too much,
* writes smaller than 1/8 of avg size are ignored.
*/
-#define WB_FRN_TIME_SHIFT 13 /* 1s = 2^13, upto 8 secs w/ 16bit */
+#define WB_FRN_TIME_SHIFT 13 /* 1s = 2^13, up to 8 secs w/ 16bit */
#define WB_FRN_TIME_AVG_SHIFT 3 /* avg = avg * 7/8 + new * 1/8 */
#define WB_FRN_TIME_CUT_DIV 8 /* ignore rounds < avg / 8 */
#define WB_FRN_TIME_PERIOD (2 * (1 << WB_FRN_TIME_SHIFT)) /* 2s */
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ void wb_wait_for_completion(struct wb_completion *done)
#define WB_FRN_HIST_THR_SLOTS (WB_FRN_HIST_SLOTS / 2)
/* if foreign slots >= 8, switch */
#define WB_FRN_HIST_MAX_SLOTS (WB_FRN_HIST_THR_SLOTS / 2 + 1)
- /* one round can affect upto 5 slots */
+ /* one round can affect up to 5 slots */
#define WB_FRN_MAX_IN_FLIGHT 1024 /* don't queue too many concurrently */

/*
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index ba7da39be4a3..817fd5254495 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1771,7 +1771,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ilookup);
* function must never block --- find_inode() can block in
* __wait_on_freeing_inode() --- or when the caller can not increment
* the reference count because the resulting iput() might cause an
- * inode eviction. The tradeoff is that the @match funtion must be
+ * inode eviction. The tradeoff is that the @match function must be
* very carefully implemented.
*/
struct inode *find_inode_nowait(struct super_block *sb,
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 1ecd96c918b3..f45233f425f7 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -4115,7 +4115,7 @@ int path_mount(const char *dev_name, const struct path *path,
if (flags & SB_MANDLOCK)
warn_mandlock();

- /* Default to relatime unless overriden */
+ /* Default to relatime unless overridden */
if (!(flags & MS_NOATIME))
mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f9d1e05e8ae6..05d05bb9c951 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1436,7 +1436,7 @@ static inline void i_gid_write(struct inode *inode, gid_t gid)
* @idmap: idmap of the mount the inode was found from
* @inode: inode to map
*
- * Return: whe inode's i_uid mapped down according to @idmap.
+ * Return: the inode's i_uid mapped down according to @idmap.
* If the inode's i_uid has no mapping INVALID_VFSUID is returned.
*/
static inline vfsuid_t i_uid_into_vfsuid(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
index 34c6f219462a..a46c33692aa2 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct fstrim_range {
* We include a length field because some filesystems (vfat) have an identifier
* that we do want to expose as a UUID, but doesn't have the standard length.
*
- * We use a fixed size buffer beacuse this interface will, by fiat, never
+ * We use a fixed size buffer because this interface will, by fiat, never
* support "UUIDs" longer than 16 bytes; we don't want to force all downstream
* users to have to deal with that.
*/
--
2.48.1