diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index e91b9564239..a6c0e74211a 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -896,6 +896,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8961. Investigate lock issue in o.a.h.hdfs.shortcircuit.
     DfsClientShmManager.EndpointShmManager. (Mingliang Liu via wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-8969. Clean up findbugs warnings for HDFS-8823 and HDFS-8932.
+    (Anu Engineer via wheat9)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
index d7294d19a29..61c7df9f591 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
@@ -1651,7 +1651,7 @@ private JournalManager createJournal(URI uri) {
    * Return total number of syncs happened on this edit log.
    * @return long - count
    */
-  public long getTotalSyncCount() {
+  public synchronized long getTotalSyncCount() {
     if (editLogStream != null) {
       return editLogStream.getNumSync();
     } else {
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
index a3e74d36f47..ddb9a3adca8 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
@@ -252,9 +252,7 @@ public void blockIdCK(String blockId) {
       NumberReplicas numberReplicas= bm.countNodes(blockInfo);
       out.println("Block Id: " + blockId);
       out.println("Block belongs to: "+iNode.getFullPathName());
-      if (blockInfo != null) {
-        out.println("No. of Expected Replica: " + blockInfo.getReplication());
-      }
+      out.println("No. of Expected Replica: " + blockInfo.getReplication());
       out.println("No. of live Replica: " + numberReplicas.liveReplicas());
       out.println("No. of excess Replica: " + numberReplicas.excessReplicas());
       out.println("No. of stale Replica: " +