diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c b/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
index 5b50689d8539..79ee2b436685 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ void make_empty_dir_item_v1(char *body, __le32 dirid, __le32 objid,
 
 	/* direntry header of "." */
 	put_deh_offset(dot, DOT_OFFSET);
-	/* these two are from make_le_item_head, and are are LE */
+	/* these two are from make_le_item_head, and are LE */
 	dot->deh_dir_id = dirid;
 	dot->deh_objectid = objid;
 	dot->deh_state = 0;	/* Endian safe if 0 */
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ void make_empty_dir_item_v1(char *body, __le32 dirid, __le32 objid,
 	/* direntry header of ".." */
 	put_deh_offset(dotdot, DOT_DOT_OFFSET);
 	/* key of ".." for the root directory */
-	/* these two are from the inode, and are are LE */
+	/* these two are from the inode, and are LE */
 	dotdot->deh_dir_id = par_dirid;
 	dotdot->deh_objectid = par_objid;
 	dotdot->deh_state = 0;	/* Endian safe if 0 */
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ void make_empty_dir_item(char *body, __le32 dirid, __le32 objid,
 
 	/* direntry header of "." */
 	put_deh_offset(dot, DOT_OFFSET);
-	/* these two are from make_le_item_head, and are are LE */
+	/* these two are from make_le_item_head, and are LE */
 	dot->deh_dir_id = dirid;
 	dot->deh_objectid = objid;
 	dot->deh_state = 0;	/* Endian safe if 0 */
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ void make_empty_dir_item(char *body, __le32 dirid, __le32 objid,
 	/* direntry header of ".." */
 	put_deh_offset(dotdot, DOT_DOT_OFFSET);
 	/* key of ".." for the root directory */
-	/* these two are from the inode, and are are LE */
+	/* these two are from the inode, and are LE */
 	dotdot->deh_dir_id = par_dirid;
 	dotdot->deh_objectid = par_objid;
 	dotdot->deh_state = 0;	/* Endian safe if 0 */
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c b/fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c
index 117092224111..fefe87e1c099 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c
@@ -611,9 +611,9 @@ static int get_num_ver(int mode, struct tree_balance *tb, int h,
  *	blk_num	number of blocks that S[h] will be splitted into;
  *	s012	number of items that fall into splitted nodes.
  *	lbytes	number of bytes which flow to the left neighbor from the
- *              item that is not not shifted entirely
+ *              item that is not shifted entirely
  *	rbytes	number of bytes which flow to the right neighbor from the
- *              item that is not not shifted entirely
+ *              item that is not shifted entirely
  *	s1bytes	number of bytes which flow to the first  new node when
  *              S[0] splits (this number is contained in s012 array)
  */
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index 5c766330e493..e98f99338f8f 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
  *                      to disk for all backgrounded commits that have been
  *                      around too long.
  *		     -- Note, if you call this as an immediate flush from
- *		        from within kupdate, it will ignore the immediate flag
+ *		        within kupdate, it will ignore the immediate flag
  */
 
 #include <linux/time.h>
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c
index 05f666794561..ccd40df6eb45 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ int reiserfs_cache_default_acl(struct inode *inode)
 
 		/* Other xattrs can be created during inode creation. We don't
 		 * want to claim too many blocks, so we check to see if we
-		 * we need to create the tree to the xattrs, and then we
+		 * need to create the tree to the xattrs, and then we
 		 * just want two files. */
 		nblocks = reiserfs_xattr_jcreate_nblocks(inode);
 		nblocks += JOURNAL_BLOCKS_PER_OBJECT(inode->i_sb);