diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs2/devices.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs2/devices.go
index 053ec33e0..e06617f18 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs2/devices.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs2/devices.go
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ func setDevices(dirPath string, cgroup *configs.Cgroup) error {
 	//
 	//      The real issue is that BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI makes it hard to have a
 	//      race-free blacklist because it acts as a whitelist by default, and
-	//      having a deny-everything program cannot be overriden by other
+	//      having a deny-everything program cannot be overridden by other
 	//      programs. You could temporarily insert a deny-everything program
 	//      but that would result in spurrious failures during updates.
 	if _, err := ebpf.LoadAttachCgroupDeviceFilter(insts, license, dirFD); err != nil {
diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/fscommon/fscommon_test.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/fscommon/fscommon_test.go
index 70a5ebce1..710fea915 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/fscommon/fscommon_test.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/fscommon/fscommon_test.go
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ func TestWriteCgroupFileHandlesInterrupt(t *testing.T) {
 	defer os.RemoveAll(cgroupPath)
 
 	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(cgroupPath, memoryLimit)); err != nil {
-		// either cgroupv2, or memory controller is not avalable
+		// either cgroupv2, or memory controller is not available
 		t.Skip(err)
 	}
 
diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd/common.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd/common.go
index 5872ac969..d49754ba9 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd/common.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd/common.go
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ func groupPrefix(ruleType configs.DeviceType) (string, error) {
 }
 
 // findDeviceGroup tries to find the device group name (as listed in
-// /proc/devices) with the type prefixed as requried for DeviceAllow, for a
+// /proc/devices) with the type prefixed as required for DeviceAllow, for a
 // given (type, major) combination. If more than one device group exists, an
 // arbitrary one is chosen.
 func findDeviceGroup(ruleType configs.DeviceType, ruleMajor int64) (string, error) {