diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileUtil.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileUtil.java
index 7b8a05fc268..fe7b3eb8af7 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileUtil.java
@@ -600,18 +600,12 @@ public class FileUtil {
       return dir.length();
     } else {
       File[] allFiles = dir.listFiles();
-      if(allFiles != null) {
-         for (int i = 0; i < allFiles.length; i++) {
-           boolean isSymLink;
-           try {
-             isSymLink = org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.isSymlink(allFiles[i]);
-           } catch(IOException ioe) {
-             isSymLink = true;
-           }
-           if(!isSymLink) {
-             size += getDU(allFiles[i]);
-           }
-         }
+      if (allFiles != null) {
+        for (File f : allFiles) {
+          if (!org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.isSymlink(f)) {
+            size += getDU(f);
+          }
+        }
       }
       return size;
     }
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index c1c8d38a39a..4e28c222fb9 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
     <commons-collections.version>3.2.2</commons-collections.version>
     <commons-compress.version>1.21</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.0</commons-csv.version>
-    <commons-io.version>2.5</commons-io.version>
+    <commons-io.version>2.8.0</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.7</commons-lang3.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.3</commons-logging.version>
     <commons-logging-api.version>1.1</commons-logging-api.version>