[PATCH bpf-next v4 0/7] bpf: fix typos and repeated words in comments

Emil Tsalapatis emil at etsalapatis.com
Wed Sep 9 11:29:12 PDT 2026


On Tue Sep 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM EDT, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Fix misspellings and repeated words in comments, found with
> scripts/checkpatch.pl using the misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt.
> Comments only, no code changes.
>
> Changes since v3:
>  - rebased onto bpf-next.  CI reported a conflict on v3 and asked for a
>    rebase and resubmit; the tree has moved on since and the series
>    applies cleanly again.  The patches are otherwise identical to v3.
>
> Changes since v2:
>  - moved from mainline to bpf-next, which resolved the earlier conflict
>    in stream.c where the typo had already been fixed upstream.
>  - renamed the selftests patches to the selftests/bpf: prefix used by the
>    rest of that directory, as CI suggested.
>
> Hemanth Selam (7):
>   ARM: net: fix typo "arithmatic" in comment
>   bpf: fix typos in comments
>   powerpc: net: fix typo "upto" in comments
>   selftests/bpf: fix typos in comments
>   sparc: net: fix typo "evalute" in comment
>   libbpf: Fix typos in comments
>   selftests/bpf: fix repeated words in comments

NACK, this kind of churn for no measurable gain is not productive.

pw-bot: cr

>
>  arch/arm/net/bpf_jit_32.c                                    | 2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp32.c                            | 2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c                            | 4 ++--
>  arch/sparc/net/bpf_jit_asm_32.S                              | 2 +-
>  include/linux/filter.h                                       | 4 ++--
>  kernel/bpf/reuseport_array.c                                 | 2 +-
>  tools/lib/bpf/btf.c                                          | 4 ++--
>  tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c                                         | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/libarena/src/asan.bpf.c          | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/lwt_seg6local.c       | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/task_local_data.h     | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/freplace_unreliable_prog.c | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/iters.c                    | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_var_off.c         | 2 +-
>  14 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)




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