diff --git a/src/basic/path-util.c b/src/basic/path-util.c
index b442eebb877..40a819d47d3 100644
--- a/src/basic/path-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/path-util.c
@@ -519,17 +519,17 @@ char* path_extend_internal(char **x, ...) {
         va_list ap;
         bool slash;
 
-        /* Joins all listed strings until the sentinel and places a "/" between them unless the strings end/begin
-         * already with one so that it is unnecessary. Note that slashes which are already duplicate won't be
-         * removed. The string returned is hence always equal to or longer than the sum of the lengths of each
-         * individual string.
+        /* Joins all listed strings until the sentinel and places a "/" between them unless the strings
+         * end/begin already with one so that it is unnecessary. Note that slashes which are already
+         * duplicate won't be removed. The string returned is hence always equal to or longer than the sum of
+         * the lengths of the individual strings.
          *
          * The first argument may be an already allocated string that is extended via realloc() if
          * non-NULL. path_extend() and path_join() are macro wrappers around this function, making use of the
          * first parameter to distinguish the two operations.
          *
-         * Note: any listed empty string is simply skipped. This can be useful for concatenating strings of which some
-         * are optional.
+         * Note: any listed empty string is simply skipped. This can be useful for concatenating strings of
+         * which some are optional.
          *
          * Examples:
          *
diff --git a/src/basic/user-util.c b/src/basic/user-util.c
index e2857b31027..3daca626b8f 100644
--- a/src/basic/user-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/user-util.c
@@ -681,15 +681,12 @@ int take_etc_passwd_lock(const char *root) {
         const char *path;
         int fd, r;
 
-        /* This is roughly the same as lckpwdf(), but not as awful. We
-         * don't want to use alarm() and signals, hence we implement
-         * our own trivial version of this.
+        /* This is roughly the same as lckpwdf(), but not as awful. We don't want to use alarm() and signals,
+         * hence we implement our own trivial version of this.
          *
-         * Note that shadow-utils also takes per-database locks in
-         * addition to lckpwdf(). However, we don't given that they
-         * are redundant as they invoke lckpwdf() first and keep
-         * it during everything they do. The per-database locks are
-         * awfully racy, and thus we just won't do them. */
+         * Note that shadow-utils also takes per-database locks in addition to lckpwdf(). However, we don't,
+         * given that they are redundant: they invoke lckpwdf() first and keep it during everything they do.
+         * The per-database locks are awfully racy, and thus we just won't do them. */
 
         if (root)
                 path = prefix_roota(root, ETC_PASSWD_LOCK_PATH);