diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index d909d4649e6..b4bdf05910f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2314,6 +2314,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9358. TestNodeCount#testNodeCount timed out.
     (Masatake Iwasaki via waltersu4549)
 
+    HDFS-9397. Fix typo for readChecksum() LOG.warn in BlockSender.java.
+    (Enrique Flores via Arpit Agarwal)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockSender.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockSender.java
index 69790a6df09..695b8d01af5 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockSender.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockSender.java
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ class BlockSender implements java.io.Closeable {
     try {
       checksumIn.readFully(buf, checksumOffset, checksumLen);
     } catch (IOException e) {
-      LOG.warn(" Could not read or failed to veirfy checksum for data"
+      LOG.warn(" Could not read or failed to verify checksum for data"
           + " at offset " + offset + " for block " + block, e);
       IOUtils.closeStream(checksumIn);
       checksumIn = null;