diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index cff4f78ad9e..cada9bc8a5f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2447. RM web service app submission doesn't pass secrets correctly.
     (Varun Vasudev via jianhe)
 
+    YARN-2462. TestNodeManagerResync#testBlockNewContainerRequestsOnStartAndResync
+    should have a test timeout (Eric Payne via jlowe)
+
 Release 2.5.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestNodeManagerResync.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestNodeManagerResync.java
index bd531865815..acda2a9970c 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestNodeManagerResync.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestNodeManagerResync.java
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ protected void testContainerPreservationOnResyncImpl(TestNodeManager1 nm,
   // This test tests new container requests are blocked when NM starts from
   // scratch until it register with RM AND while NM is resyncing with RM
   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-  @Test
+  @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testBlockNewContainerRequestsOnStartAndResync()
       throws IOException, InterruptedException, YarnException {
     NodeManager nm = new TestNodeManager2();