diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 78c4b58c004..af8643d0f7e 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -616,6 +616,9 @@ Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07
     
     HDFS-3432. TestDFSZKFailoverController tries to fail over too early (todd)
 
+    HDFS-3902. TestDatanodeBlockScanner#testBlockCorruptionPolicy is broken.
+    (Andy Isaacson via eli)
+
 Release 2.0.0-alpha - 05-23-2012
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockPoolSliceScanner.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockPoolSliceScanner.java
index 757c0d79c5e..e0582e47600 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockPoolSliceScanner.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockPoolSliceScanner.java
@@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ class BlockPoolSliceScanner {
     throttler.setBandwidth(Math.min(bw, MAX_SCAN_RATE));
   }
   
-  private void verifyBlock(ExtendedBlock block) {
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  void verifyBlock(ExtendedBlock block) {
     BlockSender blockSender = null;
 
     /* In case of failure, attempt to read second time to reduce
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataBlockScanner.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataBlockScanner.java
index 4a2b76296b8..95a883a87d3 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataBlockScanner.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataBlockScanner.java
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ public class DataBlockScanner implements Runnable {
     return blockPoolScannerMap.size();
   }
   
-  private synchronized BlockPoolSliceScanner getBPScanner(String bpid) {
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  synchronized BlockPoolSliceScanner getBPScanner(String bpid) {
     return blockPoolScannerMap.get(bpid);
   }
   
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDatanodeBlockScanner.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDatanodeBlockScanner.java
index dfc9e9a667a..a3cfb257312 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDatanodeBlockScanner.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDatanodeBlockScanner.java
@@ -34,14 +34,19 @@ import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.DatanodeInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ExtendedBlock;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsConstants.DatanodeReportType;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNodeTestUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Time;
+import org.apache.log4j.Level;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 /**
@@ -59,6 +64,10 @@ public class TestDatanodeBlockScanner {
   
   private static Pattern pattern_blockVerify = 
              Pattern.compile(".*?(SCAN_PERIOD)\\s*:\\s*(\\d+.*?)");
+  
+  static {
+    ((Log4JLogger)FSNamesystem.auditLog).getLogger().setLevel(Level.WARN);
+  }
   /**
    * This connects to datanode and fetches block verification data.
    * It repeats this until the given block has a verification time > newTime.
@@ -206,12 +215,12 @@ public class TestDatanodeBlockScanner {
     assertTrue(MiniDFSCluster.corruptReplica(1, block));
     assertTrue(MiniDFSCluster.corruptReplica(2, block));
 
-    // Read the file to trigger reportBadBlocks by client
-    try {
-      IOUtils.copyBytes(fs.open(file1), new IOUtils.NullOutputStream(), 
-                        conf, true);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      // Ignore exception
+    // Trigger each of the DNs to scan this block immediately.
+    // The block pool scanner doesn't run frequently enough on its own
+    // to notice these, and due to HDFS-1371, the client won't report
+    // bad blocks to the NN when all replicas are bad.
+    for (DataNode dn : cluster.getDataNodes()) {
+      DataNodeTestUtils.runBlockScannerForBlock(dn, block);
     }
 
     // We now have the blocks to be marked as corrupt and we get back all
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataNodeTestUtils.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataNodeTestUtils.java
index 55b4bf57db6..9a660263fc1 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataNodeTestUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataNodeTestUtils.java
@@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ public class DataNodeTestUtils {
         dn.getDnConf().socketTimeout, dn.getDnConf().connectToDnViaHostname);
   }
   
+  public static void runBlockScannerForBlock(DataNode dn, ExtendedBlock b) {
+    DataBlockScanner scanner = dn.getBlockScanner();
+    BlockPoolSliceScanner bpScanner = scanner.getBPScanner(b.getBlockPoolId());
+    bpScanner.verifyBlock(b);
+  }
+  
   public static void shutdownBlockScanner(DataNode dn) {
     if (dn.blockScanner != null) {
       dn.blockScanner.shutdown();