diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 05e03289ac8..2e89a676448 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-5560. Trash configuration log statements prints incorrect units.
     (Josh Elser via Andrew Wang)
 
+    HADOOP-10081. Client.setupIOStreams can leak socket resources on exception
+    or error (Tsuyoshi OZAWA via jlowe)
+
 Release 2.2.0 - 2013-10-13
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
index 63ef0963f43..105c31d9890 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
@@ -1158,6 +1158,7 @@ public class Client {
         // cleanup calls
         cleanupCalls();
       }
+      closeConnection();
       if (LOG.isDebugEnabled())
         LOG.debug(getName() + ": closed");
     }