diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index e5568aa4ff4..4d7274b26e6 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12296. when setnetgrent returns 0 in linux, exception should be
     thrown (Chang Li via jlowe)
 
+    HADOOP-12545. Hadoop javadoc has broken links for AccessControlList,
+    ImpersonationProvider, DefaultImpersonationProvider, and DistCp.
+    (Arshad Mohammad via aajisaka)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authorize/package-info.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authorize/package-info.java
index 2452a952ded..e1060e2196d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authorize/package-info.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authorize/package-info.java
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-@InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HBase", "HDFS", "MapReduce"})
+@InterfaceAudience.Public
 @InterfaceStability.Evolving
 package org.apache.hadoop.security.authorize;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
index 60ac042c5c3..89e6013b135 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
@@ -15,7 +15,4 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-@InterfaceAudience.Private
 package org.apache.hadoop.tools;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
-
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9c59b85ab35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * DistCp is a tool for replicating data using MapReduce jobs for concurrent
+ * copy operations.
+ *
+ * @version 2
+ */
+@InterfaceAudience.Public
+package org.apache.hadoop.tools;
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;