diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 071b9f13569..b9b153c721a 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1385,6 +1385,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9289. Make DataStreamer#block thread safe and verify genStamp in
     commitBlock. (Chang Li via zhz)
 
+    HDFS-9351. checkNNStartup() need to be called when fsck calls
+    FSNamesystem.getSnapshottableDirs(). (Xiao Chen via Yongjun Zhang)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
index 5966a36403a..741a41b06e9 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
@@ -6290,26 +6290,6 @@ List<String> listCorruptFileBlocksWithSnapshot(String path,
     return list;
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Get the list of snapshottable directories.
-   * @return The list of all the current snapshottable directories
-   * @see #getSnapshottableDirListing()
-   * @throws IOException
-   */
-  List<String> getSnapshottableDirs() throws IOException {
-    List<String> snapshottableDirs = new ArrayList<String>();
-    final FSPermissionChecker pc = getFSDirectory().getPermissionChecker();
-    final String user = pc.isSuperUser() ? null : pc.getUser();
-    final SnapshottableDirectoryStatus[] snapDirs =
-        snapshotManager.getSnapshottableDirListing(user);
-    if (snapDirs != null) {
-      for (SnapshottableDirectoryStatus sds : snapDirs) {
-        snapshottableDirs.add(sds.getFullPath().toString());
-      }
-    }
-    return snapshottableDirs;
-  }
-
   @Override  //NameNodeMXBean
   public int getDistinctVersionCount() {
     return blockManager.getDatanodeManager().getDatanodesSoftwareVersions()
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
index 279016cd046..19eade4d3ea 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsFileStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.LocatedBlock;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.LocatedBlocks;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.SnapshottableDirectoryStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.sasl.DataEncryptionKeyFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.security.token.block.BlockTokenIdentifier;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.security.token.block.DataEncryptionKey;
@@ -337,7 +338,13 @@ public void fsck() {
       namenode.getNamesystem().logFsckEvent(path, remoteAddress);
 
       if (snapshottableDirs != null) {
-        snapshottableDirs = namenode.getNamesystem().getSnapshottableDirs();
+        SnapshottableDirectoryStatus[] snapshotDirs =
+            namenode.getRpcServer().getSnapshottableDirListing();
+        if (snapshotDirs != null) {
+          for (SnapshottableDirectoryStatus dir : snapshotDirs) {
+            snapshottableDirs.add(dir.getFullPath().toString());
+          }
+        }
       }
 
       final HdfsFileStatus file = namenode.getRpcServer().getFileInfo(path);