diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 77a6f78c7eb..3e2cdb3c2e5 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -594,6 +594,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12362. Set hadoop.tmp.dir and hadoop.log.dir in pom.
     (Charlie Helin via wang)
 
+    HADOOP-10318. Incorrect reference to nodeFile in RumenToSLSConverter
+    error message. (Wei Yan via ozawa)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/RumenToSLSConverter.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/RumenToSLSConverter.java
index 63d022b93bd..0d0745c4137 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/RumenToSLSConverter.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/RumenToSLSConverter.java
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ public class RumenToSLSConverter {
     if (! nodeFile.getParentFile().exists()
             && ! nodeFile.getParentFile().mkdirs()) {
       System.err.println("ERROR: Cannot create output directory in path: "
-              + jsonFile.getParentFile().getAbsoluteFile());
+              + nodeFile.getParentFile().getAbsoluteFile());
       System.exit(1);
     }