diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 50baab80044..510677f8fd2 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -487,6 +487,9 @@ Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12186. ActiveStandbyElector shouldn't call monitorLockNodeAsync
     multiple times (zhihai xu via vinayakumarb)
 
+    HADOOP-12191. Bzip2Factory is not thread safe. (Brahma Reddy Battula
+    via ozawa)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - 2015-07-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/Bzip2Factory.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/Bzip2Factory.java
index c82ac9939f7..0bbcc364a29 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/Bzip2Factory.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/Bzip2Factory.java
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ public class Bzip2Factory {
    * @return <code>true</code> if native-bzip2 is loaded & initialized 
    *         and can be loaded for this job, else <code>false</code>
    */
-  public static boolean isNativeBzip2Loaded(Configuration conf) {
+  public static synchronized boolean isNativeBzip2Loaded(Configuration conf) {
     String libname = conf.get("io.compression.codec.bzip2.library", 
                               "system-native");
     if (!bzip2LibraryName.equals(libname)) {