diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/HostRestrictingAuthorizationFilter.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/HostRestrictingAuthorizationFilter.java
index e9f1cf09e86..0308e55e4cf 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/HostRestrictingAuthorizationFilter.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/HostRestrictingAuthorizationFilter.java
@@ -117,17 +117,12 @@ public class HostRestrictingAuthorizationFilter implements Filter {
       String rulePath = rule.getPath();
       LOG.trace("Evaluating rule, subnet: {}, path: {}",
           subnet != null ? subnet.getCidrSignature() : "*", rulePath);
-      try {
-        if ((subnet == null || subnet.isInRange(remoteIp))
-            && FilenameUtils.directoryContains(rulePath, path)) {
-          LOG.debug("Found matching rule, subnet: {}, path: {}; returned true",
-              rule.getSubnet() != null ? subnet.getCidrSignature() : null,
-              rulePath);
-          return true;
-        }
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        LOG.warn("Got IOException {}; returned false", e);
-        return false;
+      if ((subnet == null || subnet.isInRange(remoteIp))
+          && FilenameUtils.directoryContains(rulePath, path)) {
+        LOG.debug("Found matching rule, subnet: {}, path: {}; returned true",
+            rule.getSubnet() != null ? subnet.getCidrSignature() : null,
+            rulePath);
+        return true;
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index ef479ccb8c8..0f01726f4c2 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
     <commons-collections.version>3.2.2</commons-collections.version>
     <commons-compress.version>1.21</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.0</commons-csv.version>
-    <commons-io.version>2.8.0</commons-io.version>
+    <commons-io.version>2.11.0</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.12.0</commons-lang3.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.3</commons-logging.version>
     <commons-logging-api.version>1.1</commons-logging-api.version>