diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index b19863b5a33..b3eaf6a8f9d 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ Release 2.7.4 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9444. Add utility to find set of available ephemeral ports to
     ServerSocketUtil. (Masatake Iwasaki via Brahma Reddy Battula)
 
+    HDFS-10627. Volume Scanner marks a block as "suspect" even if
+    the exception is network-related. (Rushabh S Shah via kihwal)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - 2016-08-25
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockSender.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockSender.java
index 80061d32e6f..82fea00658f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockSender.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BlockSender.java
@@ -613,10 +613,10 @@ class BlockSender implements java.io.Closeable {
         String ioem = e.getMessage();
         if (!ioem.startsWith("Broken pipe") && !ioem.startsWith("Connection reset")) {
           LOG.error("BlockSender.sendChunks() exception: ", e);
-        }
-        datanode.getBlockScanner().markSuspectBlock(
+          datanode.getBlockScanner().markSuspectBlock(
               volumeRef.getVolume().getStorageID(),
               block);
+        }
       }
       throw ioeToSocketException(e);
     }