diff --git a/doc/ja/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in b/doc/ja/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
index a0fbb1d88..cb9a8a760 100644
--- a/doc/ja/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
+++ b/doc/ja/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
@@ -1916,7 +1916,7 @@ by KATOH Yasufumi <karma at jazz.email.ne.jp>
             <para>
               <!--
               Specify the control group value to be set on the unified cgroup
-              shierarchy. The controller name is the literal name of the control
+              hierarchy. The controller name is the literal name of the control
               group. The permitted names and the syntax of their values is not
               dictated by LXC, instead it depends on the features of the Linux
               kernel running at the time the container is started, eg.
diff --git a/doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in b/doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
index d217e53d9..0a20e06db 100644
--- a/doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
+++ b/doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in
@@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ dev/null proc/kcore none bind,relative 0 0
           <listitem>
             <para>
               Specify the control group value to be set on the unified cgroup
-              shierarchy. The controller name is the literal name of the control
+              hierarchy. The controller name is the literal name of the control
               group. The permitted names and the syntax of their values is not
               dictated by LXC, instead it depends on the features of the Linux
               kernel running at the time the container is started, eg.
diff --git a/src/lxc/pam/pam_cgfs.c b/src/lxc/pam/pam_cgfs.c
index 4b2aa567e..855a40f87 100644
--- a/src/lxc/pam/pam_cgfs.c
+++ b/src/lxc/pam/pam_cgfs.c
@@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ static inline int cg_get_version_of_mntpt(const char *path)
 }
 
 /* Detect and store information about the cgroupfs v2 hierarchy. Currently only
- * deals with the empty v2 hierachy as we do not retrieve enabled controllers.
+ * deals with the empty v2 hierarchy as we do not retrieve enabled controllers.
  */
 static bool cgv2_init(uid_t uid, gid_t gid)
 {