diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 0752de0fe36..1657a276508 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-6191. Improve clearing stale state of Java serialization
                     testcase.  (Sam Liu via Eric Yang)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6460. TestRMContainerAllocator.
+    testAttemptNotFoundCausesRMCommunicatorException fails. (Zhihai Xu)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - 2016-01-25
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/rm/TestRMContainerAllocator.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/rm/TestRMContainerAllocator.java
index eb40069dc2c..dc556dae87d 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/rm/TestRMContainerAllocator.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/rm/TestRMContainerAllocator.java
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.recovery.MemoryRMStateStore;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.recovery.RMStateStore;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMApp;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMAppState;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.Allocation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.ResourceScheduler;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.event.SchedulerEvent;
@@ -2607,7 +2608,7 @@ public void testAttemptNotFoundCausesRMCommunicatorException()
 
     // Now kill the application
     rm.killApp(app.getApplicationId());
-
+    rm.waitForState(app.getApplicationId(), RMAppState.KILLED);
     allocator.schedule();
   }