diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 23abc977489..2a44ea6f97c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2024,6 +2024,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9222. Add hadoop-hdfs-client as a dependency of
     hadoop-hdfs-native-client. (Mingliang Liu via wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-9224. TestFileTruncate fails intermittently with BindException
+    (Brahma Reddy Battula via vinayakumarb)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestFileTruncate.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestFileTruncate.java
index 0423d41f368..7fd99d6bb6f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestFileTruncate.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestFileTruncate.java
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.LocatedBlocks;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockInfoContiguous;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.HdfsServerConstants;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.HdfsServerConstants.StartupOption;
+import org.apache.hadoop.net.ServerSocketUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.test.GenericTestUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Time;
@@ -1228,7 +1229,9 @@ public class TestFileTruncate {
       NameNode.doRollback(conf, false);
     cluster = new MiniDFSCluster.Builder(conf).numDataNodes(DATANODE_NUM)
         .format(false)
-        .nameNodePort(HdfsClientConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_RPC_PORT_DEFAULT)
+        .nameNodePort(
+            ServerSocketUtil.getPort(
+                HdfsClientConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_RPC_PORT_DEFAULT, 10))
         .startupOption(o==StartupOption.ROLLBACK ? StartupOption.REGULAR : o)
         .dnStartupOption(o!=StartupOption.ROLLBACK ? StartupOption.REGULAR : o)
         .build();