diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index a42144b6516..594edc122e9 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1150,6 +1150,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
    
     MAPREDUCE-2881. Fix to include log4j 1.2.16 depenency (gkesavan)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-2885. Fix mapred-config.sh to look for hadoop-config.sh in
+    HADOOP_COMMON_HOME/libexec. (acmurthy) 
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred-config.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred-config.sh
index 53c12a8d665..c79f4fb62f2 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred-config.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred-config.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
 
 if [ -e "$bin/../libexec/hadoop-config.sh" ]; then
   . "$bin/../libexec/hadoop-config.sh"
+elif [ -e "${HADOOP_COMMON_HOME}/libexec/hadoop-config.sh" ]; then
+  . "$HADOOP_COMMON_HOME"/libexec/hadoop-config.sh
 elif [ -e "${HADOOP_COMMON_HOME}/bin/hadoop-config.sh" ]; then
   . "$HADOOP_COMMON_HOME"/bin/hadoop-config.sh
 elif [ -e "${HADOOP_HOME}/bin/hadoop-config.sh" ]; then