diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-4949.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-4949.txt
index b654ac448d3..19825479b61 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-4949.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-4949.txt
@@ -101,3 +101,6 @@ HDFS-4949 (Unreleased)
     -replication parameter. (cnauroth)
 
     HDFS-5383. fix broken caching unit tests. (Andrew Wang)
+
+    HDFS-5388. Loading fsimage fails to find cache pools during namenode
+    startup.  (Chris Nauroth via Colin Patrick McCabe)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/CacheManager.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/CacheManager.java
index 9661ae2155b..da5b2f539ae 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/CacheManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/CacheManager.java
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ public final class CacheManager {
       String poolName = Text.readString(in);
       // Get pool reference by looking it up in the map
       CachePool pool = cachePools.get(poolName);
-      if (pool != null) {
+      if (pool == null) {
         throw new IOException("Entry refers to pool " + poolName +
             ", which does not exist.");
       }