From 12ecb55ffee2b89108eea2565e7ad955ea1fabe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Loughran <stevel@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:05:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] HADOOP-15289. FileStatus.readFields() assertion incorrect.
 Contributed by Steve Loughran.

---
 .../src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java          | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java
index 0663c43d182..83910c46c10 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ public class FileStatus implements Writable, Comparable<Object>,
     setPath(other.getPath());
     attr = attributes(other.hasAcl(), other.isEncrypted(),
         other.isErasureCoded(), other.isSnapshotEnabled());
-    assert (isDirectory() && getSymlink() == null) || !isDirectory();
+    assert !(isDirectory() && isSymlink()) : "A directory cannot be a symlink";
   }
 
   /**