diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 59ec12a9b8d..c63b0faf16f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -470,6 +470,9 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     HDFS-5589. Namenode loops caching and uncaching when data should be
     uncached (awang via cmccabe)
 
+    HDFS-5724. modifyCacheDirective logging audit log command wrongly as
+    addCacheDirective (Uma Maheswara Rao G via Colin Patrick McCabe)
+
 Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
index 600f0fbb261..f5cda802c8a 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
@@ -7137,7 +7137,7 @@ void modifyCacheDirective(CacheDirectiveInfo directive,
         getEditLog().logSync();
       }
       if (isAuditEnabled() && isExternalInvocation()) {
-        logAuditEvent(success, "addCacheDirective", null, null, null);
+        logAuditEvent(success, "modifyCacheDirective", null, null, null);
       }
       RetryCache.setState(cacheEntry, success);
     }