diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 0e3fed1d105..1fe62596eef 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1115,6 +1115,9 @@ Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8818. Use equals instead == in MD5MD5CRC32FileChecksum
     and TFileDumper. (Brandon Li via suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-9121. InodeTree.java has redundant check for vName while
+    throwing exception. (Arup Malakar via suresh)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - 2016-01-25
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/viewfs/InodeTree.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/viewfs/InodeTree.java
index 632f325b2e7..8c42cdf92bd 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/viewfs/InodeTree.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/viewfs/InodeTree.java
@@ -118,8 +118,7 @@ INode<T> resolve(final String pathComponent) throws FileNotFoundException {
       return result;
     }
     
-    INode<T> resolveInternal(final String pathComponent)
-        throws FileNotFoundException {
+    INode<T> resolveInternal(final String pathComponent) {
       return children.get(pathComponent);
     }
     
@@ -336,8 +335,8 @@ protected InodeTree(final Configuration config, final String viewName)
     }
     if (!gotMountTableEntry) {
       throw new IOException(
-          "ViewFs: Cannot initialize: Empty Mount table in config for " + 
-             vName == null ? "viewfs:///" : ("viewfs://" + vName + "/"));
+          "ViewFs: Cannot initialize: Empty Mount table in config for " +
+             "viewfs://" + vName + "/");
     }
   }