diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
index 5ce79bf9f92b7fa5b339502a9c788f4c2b135dd4..c9bec3813e94949928f24b22322f1b92ba036044 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static void vm_set_status(struct virtio_device *vdev, u8 status)
 
 	/*
 	 * Per memory-barriers.txt, wmb() is not needed to guarantee
-	 * that the the cache coherent memory writes have completed
+	 * that the cache coherent memory writes have completed
 	 * before writing to the MMIO region.
 	 */
 	writel(status, vm_dev->base + VIRTIO_MMIO_STATUS);
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern_dev.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern_dev.c
index a0fa14f28a7fc0b490910b75ad834c247a59ad59..b790f30b2b56620e1def1effc366abee5dad4bf9 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern_dev.c
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ void vp_modern_set_status(struct virtio_pci_modern_device *mdev,
 
 	/*
 	 * Per memory-barriers.txt, wmb() is not needed to guarantee
-	 * that the the cache coherent memory writes have completed
+	 * that the cache coherent memory writes have completed
 	 * before writing to the MMIO region.
 	 */
 	vp_iowrite8(status, &cfg->device_status);