diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index a8a03105a34..5d5c8a696f9 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -466,6 +466,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8091: ACLStatus and XAttributes should be presented to
     INodeAttributesProvider before returning to client (asuresh)
 
+    HDFS-7939. Two fsimage_rollback_* files are created which are not deleted
+    after rollback. (J.Andreina via vinayakumarb)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSImage.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSImage.java
index d62b952939c..5665084954a 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSImage.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSImage.java
@@ -707,6 +707,8 @@ private void rollingRollback(long discardSegmentTxId, long ckptId)
         true);
     // purge all the checkpoints after the marker
     archivalManager.purgeCheckpoinsAfter(NameNodeFile.IMAGE, ckptId);
+    // HDFS-7939: purge all old fsimage_rollback_*
+    archivalManager.purgeCheckpoints(NameNodeFile.IMAGE_ROLLBACK);
     String nameserviceId = DFSUtil.getNamenodeNameServiceId(conf);
     if (HAUtil.isHAEnabled(conf, nameserviceId)) {
       // close the editlog since it is currently open for write