diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 2485786d174..813a37d5c4b 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -222,6 +222,8 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6370. Web UI fails to display in intranet under IE.
     (Haohui Mai via cnauroth)
 
+    HDFS-6381. Fix a typo in INodeReference.java. (Binglin Chang via jing9)
+
 Release 2.4.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/INodeReference.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/INodeReference.java
index 77be2147a4f..eba7cd43033 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/INodeReference.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/INodeReference.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
  * snapshots and it is renamed/moved to other locations.
  * 
  * For example,
- * (1) Support we have /abc/foo, say the inode of foo is inode(id=1000,name=foo)
+ * (1) Suppose we have /abc/foo, say the inode of foo is inode(id=1000,name=foo)
  * (2) create snapshot s0 for /abc
  * (3) mv /abc/foo /xyz/bar, i.e. inode(id=1000,name=...) is renamed from "foo"
  *     to "bar" and its parent becomes /xyz.