diff --git a/sys/amd64/linux32/linux32_machdep.c b/sys/amd64/linux32/linux32_machdep.c
index bcbf51082c6..29b3b99bc48 100644
--- a/sys/amd64/linux32/linux32_machdep.c
+++ b/sys/amd64/linux32/linux32_machdep.c
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ linux_set_thread_area(struct thread *td,
 	/*
 	 * Semantics of Linux version: every thread in the system has array
 	 * of three TLS descriptors. 1st is GLIBC TLS, 2nd is WINE, 3rd unknown.
-	 * This syscall loads one of the selected TLS decriptors with a value
+	 * This syscall loads one of the selected TLS descriptors with a value
 	 * and also loads GDT descriptors 6, 7 and 8 with the content of
 	 * the per-thread descriptors.
 	 *
diff --git a/sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c b/sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c
index 92b37646d28..08124202c90 100644
--- a/sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c
+++ b/sys/i386/linux/linux_machdep.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ linux_set_thread_area(struct thread *td, struct linux_set_thread_area_args *args
 	/*
 	 * Semantics of Linux version: every thread in the system has array of
 	 * 3 tls descriptors. 1st is GLIBC TLS, 2nd is WINE, 3rd unknown. This
-	 * syscall loads one of the selected tls decriptors with a value and
+	 * syscall loads one of the selected tls descriptors with a value and
 	 * also loads GDT descriptors 6, 7 and 8 with the content of the
 	 * per-thread descriptors.
 	 *