diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 22b02d61f75..49183909002 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -766,6 +766,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-9280. Document NFS gateway export point parameter. (Xiao Chen via zhz)
 
+    HDFS-9297. Update TestBlockMissingException to use corruptBlockOnDataNodesByDeletingBlockFile().
+    (Tony Wu via lei)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HDFS-8091: ACLStatus and XAttributes should be presented to
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestBlockMissingException.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestBlockMissingException.java
index a3104a0f110..7287b5c8be3 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestBlockMissingException.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestBlockMissingException.java
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ public void testBlockMissingException() throws Exception {
           0, numBlocks * blockSize);
       // remove block of file
       LOG.info("Remove first block of file");
-      corruptBlock(file1, locations.get(0).getBlock());
+      dfs.corruptBlockOnDataNodesByDeletingBlockFile(
+          locations.get(0).getBlock());
 
       // validate that the system throws BlockMissingException
       validateFile(fileSys, file1);
@@ -118,16 +119,4 @@ private void validateFile(FileSystem fileSys, Path name)
     stm.close();
     assertTrue("Expected BlockMissingException ", gotException);
   }
-
-  //
-  // Corrupt specified block of file
-  //
-  void corruptBlock(Path file, ExtendedBlock blk) {
-    // Now deliberately remove/truncate data blocks from the file.
-    File[] blockFiles = dfs.getAllBlockFiles(blk);
-    for (File f : blockFiles) {
-      f.delete();
-      LOG.info("Deleted block " + f);
-    }
-  }
 }