diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index f13af128492..f61d876b822 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-6432. Add snapshot related APIs to webhdfs. (jing9)
 
+    HDFS-6396. Remove support for ACL feature from INodeSymlink.
+    (Charles Lamb via wang)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-6214. Webhdfs has poor throughput for files >2GB (daryn)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/INodeSymlink.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/INodeSymlink.java
index 16d73268934..2b709b2c332 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/INodeSymlink.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/INodeSymlink.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.PermissionStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.QuotaExceededException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.snapshot.Snapshot;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AclFeature;
 
 /**
  * An {@link INode} representing a symbolic link.
@@ -110,4 +111,23 @@ public class INodeSymlink extends INodeWithAdditionalFields {
     super.dumpTreeRecursively(out, prefix, snapshot);
     out.println();
   }
+
+  /**
+   * getAclFeature is not overridden because it is needed for resolving
+   * symlinks.
+  @Override
+  final AclFeature getAclFeature(int snapshotId) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("ACLs are not supported on symlinks");
+  }
+  */
+
+  @Override
+  public void removeAclFeature() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("ACLs are not supported on symlinks");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void addAclFeature(AclFeature f) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("ACLs are not supported on symlinks");
+  }
 }