diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index dc7d4a9411b..6b14d5cd611 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -878,6 +878,10 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-7950. Fix TestFsDatasetImpl#testAddVolumes failure on Windows.
     (Xiaoyu Yao via Arpit Agarwal)
 
+    HDFS-7951. Fix NPE for
+    TestFsDatasetImpl#testAddVolumeFailureReleasesInUseLock on Linux
+    (Xiaoyu Yao via Arpit Agarwal)
+
     BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-7584 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
 
       HDFS-7720. Quota by Storage Type API, tools and ClientNameNode
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/TestFsDatasetImpl.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/TestFsDatasetImpl.java
index 73fcd197aff..56a4287d631 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/TestFsDatasetImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/TestFsDatasetImpl.java
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ public void testAddVolumeFailureReleasesInUseLock() throws IOException {
     Storage.StorageDirectory sd = createStorageDirectory(badDir);
     sd.lock();
     DataStorage.VolumeBuilder builder = new DataStorage.VolumeBuilder(storage, sd);
-    when(storage.prepareVolume(eq(datanode), eq(badDir),
+    when(storage.prepareVolume(eq(datanode), eq(badDir.getAbsoluteFile()),
         Matchers.<List<NamespaceInfo>>any()))
         .thenReturn(builder);