diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index a88324336f3..86f193074b1 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -670,6 +670,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6563. NameNode cannot save fsimage in certain circumstances when
     snapshots are in use. (atm)
 
+    HDFS-3848. A Bug in recoverLeaseInternal method of FSNameSystem class
+    (Hooman Peiro Sajjad  and Chen He via kihwal)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-2006 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
 
     HDFS-6299. Protobuf for XAttr and client-side implementation. (Yi Liu via umamahesh)
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 3846add44ee..ad7b4d61285 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
@@ -2584,10 +2584,10 @@ public class FSNamesystem implements Namesystem, FSClusterStats,
       // We found the lease for this file. And surprisingly the original
       // holder is trying to recreate this file. This should never occur.
       //
+
       if (!force && lease != null) {
         Lease leaseFile = leaseManager.getLeaseByPath(src);
-        if ((leaseFile != null && leaseFile.equals(lease)) ||
-            lease.getHolder().equals(holder)) { 
+        if (leaseFile != null && leaseFile.equals(lease)) {
           throw new AlreadyBeingCreatedException(
             "failed to create file " + src + " for " + holder +
             " for client " + clientMachine +
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestLeaseRecovery2.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestLeaseRecovery2.java
index 04a0d2298e7..6d981fbfd18 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestLeaseRecovery2.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestLeaseRecovery2.java
@@ -153,6 +153,15 @@ public class TestLeaseRecovery2 {
     verifyFile(dfs, filepath1, actual, size);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testLeaseRecoverByAnotherUser() throws Exception {
+    byte [] actual = new byte[FILE_SIZE];
+    cluster.setLeasePeriod(SHORT_LEASE_PERIOD, LONG_LEASE_PERIOD);
+    Path filepath = createFile("/immediateRecoverLease-x", 0, true);
+    recoverLeaseUsingCreate2(filepath);
+    verifyFile(dfs, filepath, actual, 0);
+  }
+
   private Path createFile(final String filestr, final int size,
       final boolean triggerLeaseRenewerInterrupt)
   throws IOException, InterruptedException {
@@ -196,7 +205,7 @@ public class TestLeaseRecovery2 {
   }
 
   private void recoverLeaseUsingCreate(Path filepath)
-  throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+      throws IOException, InterruptedException {
     FileSystem dfs2 = getFSAsAnotherUser(conf);
     for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
       AppendTestUtil.LOG.info("i=" + i);
@@ -216,6 +225,20 @@ public class TestLeaseRecovery2 {
     fail("recoverLeaseUsingCreate failed");
   }
 
+  private void recoverLeaseUsingCreate2(Path filepath)
+          throws Exception {
+    FileSystem dfs2 = getFSAsAnotherUser(conf);
+    int size = AppendTestUtil.nextInt(FILE_SIZE);
+    DistributedFileSystem dfsx = (DistributedFileSystem) dfs2;
+    //create file using dfsx
+    Path filepath2 = new Path("/immediateRecoverLease-x2");
+    FSDataOutputStream stm = dfsx.create(filepath2, true, BUF_SIZE,
+        REPLICATION_NUM, BLOCK_SIZE);
+    assertTrue(dfsx.dfs.exists("/immediateRecoverLease-x2"));
+    try {Thread.sleep(10000);} catch (InterruptedException e) {}
+    dfsx.append(filepath);
+  }
+
   private void verifyFile(FileSystem dfs, Path filepath, byte[] actual,
       int size) throws IOException {
     AppendTestUtil.LOG.info("Lease for file " +  filepath + " is recovered. "