diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 01ffe9f3a05..8f4185d88d7 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-3728. ShuffleHandler can't access results when configured in a
     secure mode (ahmed via tucu)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3952. In MR2, when Total input paths to process == 1,
+    CombinefileInputFormat.getSplits() returns 0 split. (zhenxiao via tucu)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/CombineFileInputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/CombineFileInputFormat.java
index d213f592716..f991f2a6501 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/CombineFileInputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/CombineFileInputFormat.java
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ public abstract class CombineFileInputFormat<K, V>
             long left = locations[i].getLength();
             long myOffset = locations[i].getOffset();
             long myLength = 0;
-            while (left > 0) {
+            do {
               if (maxSize == 0) {
                 myLength = left;
               } else {
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ public abstract class CombineFileInputFormat<K, V>
               myOffset += myLength;
 
               blocksList.add(oneblock);
-            }
+            } while (left > 0);
           }
           blocks = blocksList.toArray(new OneBlockInfo[blocksList.size()]);
         }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/TestCombineFileInputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/TestCombineFileInputFormat.java
index 9369ffc7404..a46173f15ff 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/TestCombineFileInputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/TestCombineFileInputFormat.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptID;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskType;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.TaskAttemptContextImpl;
+import org.junit.Test;
 
 public class TestCombineFileInputFormat extends TestCase {
 
@@ -1111,6 +1112,34 @@ public class TestCombineFileInputFormat extends TestCase {
       }
     }
   }
+  
+  /**
+   * Test when the input file's length is 0.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testForEmptyFile() throws Exception {
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+    FileSystem fileSys = FileSystem.get(conf);
+    Path file = new Path("test" + "/file");
+    FSDataOutputStream out = fileSys.create(file, true,
+        conf.getInt("io.file.buffer.size", 4096), (short) 1, (long) BLOCKSIZE);
+    out.write(new byte[0]);
+    out.close();
+
+    // split it using a CombinedFile input format
+    DummyInputFormat inFormat = new DummyInputFormat();
+    Job job = Job.getInstance(conf);
+    FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, "test");
+    List<InputSplit> splits = inFormat.getSplits(job);
+    assertEquals(splits.size(), 1);
+    CombineFileSplit fileSplit = (CombineFileSplit) splits.get(0);
+    assertEquals(1, fileSplit.getNumPaths());
+    assertEquals(file.getName(), fileSplit.getPath(0).getName());
+    assertEquals(0, fileSplit.getOffset(0));
+    assertEquals(0, fileSplit.getLength(0));
+
+    fileSys.delete(file.getParent(), true);
+  }
 
   static class TestFilter implements PathFilter {
     private Path p;