diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index cbac594fb57..fb42f46ad24 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-7357. FSNamesystem.checkFileProgress should log file path.
     (Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze via wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-7335. Redundant checkOperation() in FSN.analyzeFileState().
+    (Milan Desai via shv)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
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 900bac18267..1477eb5b896 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
@@ -3294,7 +3294,6 @@ public class FSNamesystem implements Namesystem, FSClusterStats,
 
     checkBlock(previous);
     onRetryBlock[0] = null;
-    checkOperation(OperationCategory.WRITE);
     checkNameNodeSafeMode("Cannot add block to " + src);
 
     // have we exceeded the configured limit of fs objects.