diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 8714d15787b..67c3e692139 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -669,6 +669,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6364. Incorrect check for unknown datanode in Balancer. (Benoy
     Antony via Arpit Agarwal)
 
+    HDFS-6503. Fix typo of DFSAdmin restoreFailedStorage.
+    (Zesheng Wu via wheat9)
+
 Release 2.4.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSAdmin.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSAdmin.java
index cc5bbcf3772..6c67b12772f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSAdmin.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSAdmin.java
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ public class DFSAdmin extends FsShell {
    * @exception IOException 
    * @see org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ClientProtocol#restoreFailedStorage(String arg)
    */
-  public int restoreFaileStorage(String arg) throws IOException {
+  public int restoreFailedStorage(String arg) throws IOException {
     int exitCode = -1;
 
     if(!arg.equals("check") && !arg.equals("true") && !arg.equals("false")) {
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ public class DFSAdmin extends FsShell {
       } else if ("-rollEdits".equals(cmd)) {
         exitCode = rollEdits();
       } else if ("-restoreFailedStorage".equals(cmd)) {
-        exitCode = restoreFaileStorage(argv[i]);
+        exitCode = restoreFailedStorage(argv[i]);
       } else if ("-refreshNodes".equals(cmd)) {
         exitCode = refreshNodes();
       } else if ("-finalizeUpgrade".equals(cmd)) {