diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index b962fce30b4..f8fe1e51aaa 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ Release 2.7.4 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-11180. Intermittent deadlock in NameNode when failover happens.
     (aajisaka)
 
+    HDFS-11229. HDFS-11056 failed to close meta file. (Wei-Chiu Chuang)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - 2016-08-25
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetImpl.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetImpl.java
index 4ad863ee787..2b121ac483b 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetImpl.java
@@ -1097,9 +1097,10 @@ class FsDatasetImpl implements FsDatasetSpi<FsVolumeImpl> {
     int offsetInChecksum = BlockMetadataHeader.getHeaderSize() +
         (int)(onDiskLen / bytesPerChecksum * checksumSize);
     byte[] lastChecksum = new byte[checksumSize];
-    RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(metaFile, "r");
-    raf.seek(offsetInChecksum);
-    raf.read(lastChecksum, 0, checksumSize);
+    try (RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(metaFile, "r")) {
+      raf.seek(offsetInChecksum);
+      raf.read(lastChecksum, 0, checksumSize);
+    }
     return lastChecksum;
   }