diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 97e6bd50e79..2b018e5a406 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10342. Add a new method to UGI to use a Kerberos login subject to
     build a new UGI. (Larry McCay via omalley)
 
+    HADOOP-10630. Possible race condition in RetryInvocationHandler. (jing9)
+
 Release 2.4.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
index 0d342194668..4df44f6dc6a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtocolTranslator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RpcConstants;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RpcInvocationHandler;
-import org.apache.hadoop.util.ThreadUtil;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 
@@ -161,11 +160,11 @@ public class RetryInvocationHandler<T> implements RpcInvocationHandler {
               if (invocationAttemptFailoverCount == proxyProviderFailoverCount) {
                 proxyProvider.performFailover(currentProxy.proxy);
                 proxyProviderFailoverCount++;
-                currentProxy = proxyProvider.getProxy();
               } else {
                 LOG.warn("A failover has occurred since the start of this method"
                     + " invocation attempt.");
               }
+              currentProxy = proxyProvider.getProxy();
             }
             invocationFailoverCount++;
           }