diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 6394cd4df49..8c3ed6ea329 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11301. [optionally] update jmx cache to drop old metrics
     (Maysam Yabandeh via stack)
 
+    HADOOP-11356. Removed deprecated o.a.h.fs.permission.AccessControlException.
+    (Li Lu via wheat9)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-11323. WritableComparator#compare keeps reference to byte array.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/permission/AccessControlException.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/permission/AccessControlException.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cd639511a2..00000000000
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/permission/AccessControlException.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
-
-/**
- * An exception class for access control related issues.
- * @deprecated Use {@link org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException} 
- *             instead.
- */
-@Deprecated
-@InterfaceAudience.Public
-@InterfaceStability.Stable
-public class AccessControlException extends IOException {
-  //Required by {@link java.io.Serializable}.
-  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-
-  /**
-   * Default constructor is needed for unwrapping from 
-   * {@link org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException}.
-   */
-  public AccessControlException() {
-    super("Permission denied.");
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Constructs an {@link AccessControlException}
-   * with the specified detail message.
-   * @param s the detail message.
-   */
-  public AccessControlException(String s) {
-    super(s);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Constructs a new exception with the specified cause and a detail
-   * message of <tt>(cause==null ? null : cause.toString())</tt> (which
-   * typically contains the class and detail message of <tt>cause</tt>).
-   * @param  cause the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the
-   *         {@link #getCause()} method).  (A <tt>null</tt> value is
-   *         permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or
-   *         unknown.)
-   */
-  public AccessControlException(Throwable cause) {
-    super(cause);
-  }
-}
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/AccessControlException.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/AccessControlException.java
index 5f0faa68800..b1ab829b405 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/AccessControlException.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/AccessControlException.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.security;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
 
@@ -25,8 +26,7 @@
  */
 @InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HDFS", "MapReduce"})
 @InterfaceStability.Evolving
-public class AccessControlException 
-    extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.AccessControlException {
+public class AccessControlException extends IOException {
 
   //Required by {@link java.io.Serializable}.
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;