diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 388f359107b..5b3ebc3a87b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -965,6 +965,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12584. Disable browsing the static directory in HttpServer2.
     (Robert Kanter via aajisaka)
 
+    HADOOP-12603. TestSymlinkLocalFSFileContext#testSetTimesSymlinkToDir
+    occasionally fail. (Wei-Chiu Chuang via cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/SymlinkBaseTest.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/SymlinkBaseTest.java
index 9d66732b4ec..007c37aa41e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/SymlinkBaseTest.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/SymlinkBaseTest.java
@@ -1388,7 +1388,8 @@ public abstract class SymlinkBaseTest {
     long at = wrapper.getFileLinkStatus(link).getAccessTime();
     // the local file system may not support millisecond timestamps
     wrapper.setTimes(link, 2000L, 3000L);
-    assertEquals(at, wrapper.getFileLinkStatus(link).getAccessTime());
+    assertTrue("The atime of symlink should not be lesser after setTimes()",
+        wrapper.getFileLinkStatus(link).getAccessTime() >= at);
     assertEquals(2000, wrapper.getFileStatus(dir).getModificationTime());
     assertEquals(3000, wrapper.getFileStatus(dir).getAccessTime());
   }
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSymlinkLocalFS.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSymlinkLocalFS.java
index ab55f003ae4..8968e7ad167 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSymlinkLocalFS.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSymlinkLocalFS.java
@@ -223,13 +223,13 @@ abstract public class TestSymlinkLocalFS extends SymlinkBaseTest {
 
   @Override
   public void testSetTimesSymlinkToFile() throws IOException {
-    assumeTrue(!Path.WINDOWS);
+    assumeTrue(!Shell.WINDOWS && !Shell.SOLARIS);
     super.testSetTimesSymlinkToFile();
   }
 
   @Override
   public void testSetTimesSymlinkToDir() throws IOException {
-    assumeTrue(!Path.WINDOWS);
+    assumeTrue(!Path.WINDOWS && !Shell.SOLARIS);
     super.testSetTimesSymlinkToDir();
   }