diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 150f13baa6cc..3cf48998a374 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING
 	 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully
 	 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to
 	 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the
-	 check permanentely enabled once the main issues have been fixed.
+	 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed.
 
 	 If unsure, select N.
 
@@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
 	  Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
 	  bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
 	  are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
-	  lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
+	  lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.)
 	  The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
 	  mutexes and rwsems.
 
@@ -1945,7 +1945,7 @@ config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
 	  thus exercising the error handling.
 
 	  Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
-	  for others it wont do anything.
+	  for others it won't do anything.
 
 config FAIL_FUTEX
 	bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
diff --git a/lib/asn1_encoder.c b/lib/asn1_encoder.c
index 41e71aae3ef6..27bbe891714f 100644
--- a/lib/asn1_encoder.c
+++ b/lib/asn1_encoder.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asn1_encode_oid);
 /**
  * asn1_encode_length() - encode a length to follow an ASN.1 tag
  * @data: pointer to encode at
- * @data_len: pointer to remaning length (adjusted by routine)
+ * @data_len: pointer to remaining length (adjusted by routine)
  * @len: length to encode
  *
  * This routine can encode lengths up to 65535 using the ASN.1 rules.
diff --git a/lib/devres.c b/lib/devres.c
index bdb06898a977..b0e1c6702c71 100644
--- a/lib/devres.c
+++ b/lib/devres.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static void pcim_iomap_release(struct device *gendev, void *res)
  * detach.
  *
  * This function might sleep when the table is first allocated but can
- * be safely called without context and guaranteed to succed once
+ * be safely called without context and guaranteed to succeed once
  * allocated.
  */
 void __iomem * const *pcim_iomap_table(struct pci_dev *pdev)
diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index d3ce78298832..cb5abb42c16a 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ static int ddebug_dyndbg_param_cb(char *param, char *val,
 
 	ddebug_exec_queries((val ? val : "+p"), modname);
 
-	return 0; /* query failure shouldnt stop module load */
+	return 0; /* query failure shouldn't stop module load */
 }
 
 /* handle both dyndbg and $module.dyndbg params at boot */
diff --git a/lib/fonts/font_pearl_8x8.c b/lib/fonts/font_pearl_8x8.c
index b1678ed0017c..ae98ca17982e 100644
--- a/lib/fonts/font_pearl_8x8.c
+++ b/lib/fonts/font_pearl_8x8.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 /*                                            */
 /*       Font file generated by cpi2fnt       */
 /*       ------------------------------       */
-/*       Combined with the alpha-numeric      */
+/*       Combined with the alphanumeric       */
 /*       portion of Greg Harp's old PEARL     */
 /*       font (from earlier versions of       */
 /*       linux-m86k) by John Shifflett        */
diff --git a/lib/kfifo.c b/lib/kfifo.c
index 70dab9ac7827..12f5a347aa13 100644
--- a/lib/kfifo.c
+++ b/lib/kfifo.c
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ static unsigned int __kfifo_peek_n(struct __kfifo *fifo, size_t recsize)
 	)
 
 /*
- * __kfifo_poke_n internal helper function for storeing the length of
+ * __kfifo_poke_n internal helper function for storing the length of
  * the record into the fifo
  */
 static void __kfifo_poke_n(struct __kfifo *fifo, unsigned int n, size_t recsize)
diff --git a/lib/list_sort.c b/lib/list_sort.c
index 1e1e37762799..0fb59e92ca2d 100644
--- a/lib/list_sort.c
+++ b/lib/list_sort.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static void merge_final(void *priv, list_cmp_func_t cmp, struct list_head *head,
  * @head: the list to sort
  * @cmp: the elements comparison function
  *
- * The comparison funtion @cmp must return > 0 if @a should sort after
+ * The comparison function @cmp must return > 0 if @a should sort after
  * @b ("@a > @b" if you want an ascending sort), and <= 0 if @a should
  * sort before @b *or* their original order should be preserved.  It is
  * always called with the element that came first in the input in @a,
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index 1d051ef66afe..86029ad5ead4 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static int __nla_validate_parse(const struct nlattr *head, int len, int maxtype,
  * Validates all attributes in the specified attribute stream against the
  * specified policy. Validation depends on the validate flags passed, see
  * &enum netlink_validation for more details on that.
- * See documenation of struct nla_policy for more details.
+ * See documentation of struct nla_policy for more details.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code.
  */
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ int __nla_validate(const struct nlattr *head, int len, int maxtype,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__nla_validate);
 
 /**
- * nla_policy_len - Determin the max. length of a policy
+ * nla_policy_len - Determine the max. length of a policy
  * @policy: policy to use
  * @n: number of policies
  *
diff --git a/lib/oid_registry.c b/lib/oid_registry.c
index 3dfaa836e7c5..e592d48b1974 100644
--- a/lib/oid_registry.c
+++ b/lib/oid_registry.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(parse_OID);
  * @bufsize: The size of the buffer
  *
  * The OID is rendered into the buffer in "a.b.c.d" format and the number of
- * bytes is returned.  -EBADMSG is returned if the data could not be intepreted
+ * bytes is returned.  -EBADMSG is returned if the data could not be interpreted
  * and -ENOBUFS if the buffer was too small.
  */
 int sprint_oid(const void *data, size_t datasize, char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
diff --git a/lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c b/lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c
index e5d4b3b2af81..6e77eb6d8e72 100644
--- a/lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c
+++ b/lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ pldm_check_fw_space(struct pldmfw_priv *data, size_t offset, size_t length)
  * @bytes_to_move: number of bytes to move the offset forward by
  *
  * Check that there is enough space past the current offset, and then move the
- * offset forward by this ammount.
+ * offset forward by this amount.
  *
  * Returns: zero on success, or -EFAULT if the image is too small to fit the
  * expected length.
diff --git a/lib/reed_solomon/test_rslib.c b/lib/reed_solomon/test_rslib.c
index 4eb29f365ece..d9d1c33aebda 100644
--- a/lib/reed_solomon/test_rslib.c
+++ b/lib/reed_solomon/test_rslib.c
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static void test_bc(struct rs_control *rs, int len, int errs,
 
 			/*
 			 * We check that the returned word is actually a
-			 * codeword. The obious way to do this would be to
+			 * codeword. The obvious way to do this would be to
 			 * compute the syndrome, but we don't want to replicate
 			 * that code here. However, all the codes are in
 			 * systematic form, and therefore we can encode the
diff --git a/lib/refcount.c b/lib/refcount.c
index ebac8b7d15a7..a207a8f22b3c 100644
--- a/lib/refcount.c
+++ b/lib/refcount.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(refcount_dec_and_lock);
  * @flags: saved IRQ-flags if the is acquired
  *
  * Same as refcount_dec_and_lock() above except that the spinlock is acquired
- * with disabled interupts.
+ * with disabled interrupts.
  *
  * Return: true and hold spinlock if able to decrement refcount to 0, false
  *         otherwise
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index c949c1e3b87c..e12bbfb240b8 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rhashtable_walk_exit);
  *
  * Returns zero if successful.
  *
- * Returns -EAGAIN if resize event occured.  Note that the iterator
+ * Returns -EAGAIN if resize event occurred.  Note that the iterator
  * will rewind back to the beginning and you may use it immediately
  * by calling rhashtable_walk_next.
  *
diff --git a/lib/sbitmap.c b/lib/sbitmap.c
index 47b3691058eb..b25db9be938a 100644
--- a/lib/sbitmap.c
+++ b/lib/sbitmap.c
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ void sbitmap_queue_clear(struct sbitmap_queue *sbq, unsigned int nr,
 	/*
 	 * Once the clear bit is set, the bit may be allocated out.
 	 *
-	 * Orders READ/WRITE on the asssociated instance(such as request
+	 * Orders READ/WRITE on the associated instance(such as request
 	 * of blk_mq) by this bit for avoiding race with re-allocation,
 	 * and its pair is the memory barrier implied in __sbitmap_get_word.
 	 *
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index a59778946404..27efa6178153 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_next);
  * @sg:		The scatterlist
  *
  * Description:
- * Allows to know how many entries are in sg, taking into acount
+ * Allows to know how many entries are in sg, taking into account
  * chaining as well
  *
  **/
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_nents);
  *
  * Description:
  * Determines the number of entries in sg that are required to meet
- * the supplied length, taking into acount chaining as well
+ * the supplied length, taking into account chaining as well
  *
  * Returns:
  *   the number of sg entries needed, negative error on failure
diff --git a/lib/seq_buf.c b/lib/seq_buf.c
index 707453f5d58e..b81e87ab34f6 100644
--- a/lib/seq_buf.c
+++ b/lib/seq_buf.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ int seq_buf_path(struct seq_buf *s, const struct path *path, const char *esc)
 }
 
 /**
- * seq_buf_to_user - copy the squence buffer to user space
+ * seq_buf_to_user - copy the sequence buffer to user space
  * @s: seq_buf descriptor
  * @ubuf: The userspace memory location to copy to
  * @cnt: The amount to copy
diff --git a/lib/sort.c b/lib/sort.c
index 3ad454411997..aa18153864d2 100644
--- a/lib/sort.c
+++ b/lib/sort.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static bool is_aligned(const void *base, size_t size, unsigned char align)
  * which basically all CPUs have, to minimize loop overhead computations.
  *
  * For some reason, on x86 gcc 7.3.0 adds a redundant test of n at the
- * bottom of the loop, even though the zero flag is stil valid from the
+ * bottom of the loop, even though the zero flag is still valid from the
  * subtract (since the intervening mov instructions don't alter the flags).
  * Gcc 8.1.0 doesn't have that problem.
  */
diff --git a/lib/stackdepot.c b/lib/stackdepot.c
index df9179f4f441..0a2e417f83cb 100644
--- a/lib/stackdepot.c
+++ b/lib/stackdepot.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * Instead, stack depot maintains a hashtable of unique stacktraces. Since alloc
  * and free stacks repeat a lot, we save about 100x space.
  * Stacks are never removed from depot, so we store them contiguously one after
- * another in a contiguos memory allocation.
+ * another in a contiguous memory allocation.
  *
  * Author: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
  * Copyright (C) 2016 Google, Inc.
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 1d6bca047690..87acf66f0e4c 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -3422,7 +3422,7 @@ int vsscanf(const char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list args)
 
 	while (*fmt) {
 		/* skip any white space in format */
-		/* white space in format matchs any amount of
+		/* white space in format matches any amount of
 		 * white space, including none, in the input.
 		 */
 		if (isspace(*fmt)) {
