diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade/staticpods.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade/staticpods.go
index 52cca578152..a2c0e1ddf34 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade/staticpods.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/upgrade/staticpods.go
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ func rollbackOldManifests(oldManifests map[string]string, origErr error, pathMgr
 	return fmt.Errorf("couldn't upgrade control plane. kubeadm has tried to recover everything into the earlier state. Errors faced: %v", errs)
 }
 
-// rollbackEtcdData rolls back the the content of etcd folder if something went wrong.
+// rollbackEtcdData rolls back the content of etcd folder if something went wrong.
 // When the folder contents are successfully rolled back, nil is returned, otherwise an error is returned.
 func rollbackEtcdData(cfg *kubeadmapi.InitConfiguration, pathMgr StaticPodPathManager) error {
 	backupEtcdDir := pathMgr.BackupEtcdDir()
diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/preflight/checks.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/preflight/checks.go
index 4c6a958b305..3fcc4a33327 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/preflight/checks.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/preflight/checks.go
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ func (subnet HTTPProxyCIDRCheck) Check() (warnings, errors []error) {
 	return nil, nil
 }
 
-// SystemVerificationCheck defines struct used for for running the system verification node check in test/e2e_node/system
+// SystemVerificationCheck defines struct used for running the system verification node check in test/e2e_node/system
 type SystemVerificationCheck struct {
 	IsDocker bool
 }