diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index c30ea8b9f41..fd2b11e610e 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -627,7 +627,10 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-3166. Add timeout to Hftp connections.  (Daryn Sharp via szetszwo)
 
-Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED 
+    HDFS-3176. Use MD5MD5CRC32FileChecksum.readFields() in JsonUtil .  (Kihwal
+    Lee via szetszwo)
+
+Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/JsonUtil.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/JsonUtil.java
index d27b664f6d7..45c4445e84b 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/JsonUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/JsonUtil.java
@@ -513,18 +513,13 @@ public class JsonUtil {
     final byte[] bytes = StringUtils.hexStringToByte((String)m.get("bytes"));
 
     final DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes));
-    final int bytesPerCRC = in.readInt();
-    final long crcPerBlock = in.readLong();
-    final MD5Hash md5 = MD5Hash.read(in);
-    final MD5MD5CRC32FileChecksum checksum = new MD5MD5CRC32FileChecksum(
-        bytesPerCRC, crcPerBlock, md5);
+    final MD5MD5CRC32FileChecksum checksum = new MD5MD5CRC32FileChecksum();
+    checksum.readFields(in);
 
     //check algorithm name
-    final String alg = "MD5-of-" + crcPerBlock + "MD5-of-" + bytesPerCRC + "CRC32";
-    if (!alg.equals(algorithm)) {
-      throw new IOException("Algorithm not matched: algorithm=" + algorithm
-          + ", crcPerBlock=" + crcPerBlock
-          + ", bytesPerCRC=" + bytesPerCRC);
+    if (!checksum.getAlgorithmName().equals(algorithm)) {
+      throw new IOException("Algorithm not matched. Expected " + algorithm
+          + ", Received " + checksum.getAlgorithmName());
     }
     //check length
     if (length != checksum.getLength()) {
@@ -534,4 +529,4 @@ public class JsonUtil {
 
     return checksum;
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}