diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index a9f5053a3e5..1037091af5a 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -477,6 +477,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-6363. [NNBench] Lease mismatch error when running with multiple
     mappers. (Brahma Reddy Battula via aajisaka)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6373. The logger reports total input paths but it is referring
+    to input files. (Bibin A Chundatt via devaraj)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/FileInputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/FileInputFormat.java
index c6cbd500f33..2c58ebeef52 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/FileInputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/FileInputFormat.java
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ public abstract class FileInputFormat<K, V> implements InputFormat<K, V> {
       LOG.debug("Time taken to get FileStatuses: "
           + sw.now(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS));
     }
-    LOG.info("Total input paths to process : " + result.length);
+    LOG.info("Total input files to process : " + result.length);
     return result;
   }
   
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/FileInputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/FileInputFormat.java
index f5cd5d116e4..0c5ede9890c 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/FileInputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/FileInputFormat.java
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.fs.PathFilter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.BlockLocation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.RemoteIterator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocatedFileStatusFetcher;
-import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SplitLocationInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.InputFormat;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.InputSplit;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
@@ -287,7 +286,7 @@ public abstract class FileInputFormat<K, V> extends InputFormat<K, V> {
       LOG.debug("Time taken to get FileStatuses: "
           + sw.now(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS));
     }
-    LOG.info("Total input paths to process : " + result.size()); 
+    LOG.info("Total input files to process : " + result.size());
     return result;
   }