diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSck.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSck.java
index 96fca2448eb..10b0012016b 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSck.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSck.java
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ public class DFSck extends Configured implements Tool {
     BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                                               stream, "UTF-8"));
     String line = null;
-    String lastLine = null;
+    String lastLine = NamenodeFsck.CORRUPT_STATUS;
     int errCode = -1;
     try {
       while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {