diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java
index 8ee1abf9580..45adf7bfa12 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java
@@ -1527,7 +1527,6 @@ public class NameNodeRpcServer implements NamenodeProtocols {
   @Override // DatanodeProtocol, NamenodeProtocol
   public NamespaceInfo versionRequest() throws IOException {
     checkNNStartup();
-    namesystem.checkSuperuserPrivilege();
     return namesystem.getNamespaceInfo();
   }