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 7327d884bc7..be0db11b02b 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
@@ -1164,7 +1164,14 @@ public void sendRpcRequest(final Call call)
       final ResponseBuffer buf = new ResponseBuffer();
       header.writeDelimitedTo(buf);
       RpcWritable.wrap(call.rpcRequest).writeTo(buf);
-      rpcRequestQueue.put(Pair.of(call, buf));
+      // Wait for the message to be sent. We offer with timeout to
+      // prevent a race condition between checking the shouldCloseConnection
+      // and the stopping of the polling thread
+      while (!shouldCloseConnection.get()) {
+        if (rpcRequestQueue.offer(Pair.of(call, buf), 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
+          break;
+        }
+      }
     }
 
     /* Receive a response.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestIPC.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestIPC.java
index b9afa31b448..c32f7414495 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestIPC.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestIPC.java
@@ -1338,7 +1338,7 @@ interface DummyProtocol {
   /**
    * Test the retry count while used in a retry proxy.
    */
-  @Test(timeout=60000)
+  @Test(timeout=100000)
   public void testRetryProxy() throws IOException {
     final Client client = new Client(LongWritable.class, conf);