diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 34adbf0237b..aaa37e74513 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1390,6 +1390,10 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9013. Deprecate NameNodeMXBean#getNNStarted in branch2 and remove from
     trunk (Surendra Singh Lilhore via vinayakumarb)
 
+    HDFS-9128. TestWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations and
+    TestSWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations fail due to invalid HDFS path on
+    Windows. (Chris Nauroth via wheat9)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations.java
index 874abd6c600..53513fd1504 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations.java
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ public class TestSWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations
 
   }
 
+  @Override
+  protected FileContextTestHelper createFileContextHelper() {
+    return new FileContextTestHelper("/tmp/TestSWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations");
+  }
+
   @Override
   public URI getWebhdfsUrl() {
     return webhdfsUrl;
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations.java
index c4bf0cee921..ec91cd16679 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations.java
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ public class TestWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations
     return defaultWorkingDirectory;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  protected FileContextTestHelper createFileContextHelper() {
+    return new FileContextTestHelper("/tmp/TestWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations");
+  }
+
   public URI getWebhdfsUrl() {
     return webhdfsUrl;
   }