diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index dda9549dd82..b41f690ca33 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -735,6 +735,9 @@ Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12230. hadoop-project declares duplicate, conflicting curator
     dependencies. (Rakesh R via aajisaka)
 
+    HADOOP-12465. Incorrect javadoc in WritableUtils.java.
+    (Jagadesh Kiran N via aajisaka)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - 2015-07-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/WritableUtils.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/WritableUtils.java
index a11a86008d9..6f106f74a7a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/WritableUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/WritableUtils.java
@@ -236,13 +236,13 @@ public static void cloneInto(Writable dst, Writable src) throws IOException {
 
   /**
    * Serializes an integer to a binary stream with zero-compressed encoding.
-   * For -120 <= i <= 127, only one byte is used with the actual value.
+   * For -112 <= i <= 127, only one byte is used with the actual value.
    * For other values of i, the first byte value indicates whether the
    * integer is positive or negative, and the number of bytes that follow.
+   * If the first byte value v is between -113 and -116, the following integer
+   * is positive, with number of bytes that follow are -(v+112).
    * If the first byte value v is between -121 and -124, the following integer
-   * is positive, with number of bytes that follow are -(v+120).
-   * If the first byte value v is between -125 and -128, the following integer
-   * is negative, with number of bytes that follow are -(v+124). Bytes are
+   * is negative, with number of bytes that follow are -(v+120). Bytes are
    * stored in the high-non-zero-byte-first order.
    *
    * @param stream Binary output stream