diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index f54f14c7db7..b9f21232850 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1280,6 +1280,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
    MAPREDUCE-2995. Better handling of expired containers in MapReduce
    ApplicationMaster. (vinodkv via acmurthy) 
 
+   MAPREDUCE-2995. Fixed race condition in ContainerLauncher. (vinodkv via 
+   acmurthy) 
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/launcher/ContainerLauncherImpl.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/launcher/ContainerLauncherImpl.java
index 125770de441..982f7d334ae 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/launcher/ContainerLauncherImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/launcher/ContainerLauncherImpl.java
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
 import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ public class ContainerLauncherImpl extends AbstractService implements
   private RecordFactory recordFactory;
   //have a cache/map of UGIs so as to avoid creating too many RPC
   //client connection objects to the same NodeManager
-  private Map<String, UserGroupInformation> ugiMap = 
-    new HashMap<String, UserGroupInformation>();
+  private ConcurrentMap<String, UserGroupInformation> ugiMap = 
+    new ConcurrentHashMap<String, UserGroupInformation>();
 
   public ContainerLauncherImpl(AppContext context) {
     super(ContainerLauncherImpl.class.getName());
@@ -142,22 +142,19 @@ protected ContainerManager getCMProxy(ContainerId containerID,
 
     UserGroupInformation user = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser();
 
-    // TODO: Synchronization problems!!
     if (UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEnabled()) {
-      if(!ugiMap.containsKey(containerManagerBindAddr)) {
-        Token<ContainerTokenIdentifier> token =
-          new Token<ContainerTokenIdentifier>(
-              containerToken.getIdentifier().array(),
-              containerToken.getPassword().array(), new Text(
-                  containerToken.getKind()), new Text(
-                      containerToken.getService()));
-        //the user in createRemoteUser in this context is not important
-        user = UserGroupInformation.createRemoteUser(containerManagerBindAddr);
-        user.addToken(token);
-        ugiMap.put(containerManagerBindAddr, user);
-      } else {
-        user = ugiMap.get(containerManagerBindAddr);    
-      }
+
+      Token<ContainerTokenIdentifier> token = new Token<ContainerTokenIdentifier>(
+          containerToken.getIdentifier().array(), containerToken
+              .getPassword().array(), new Text(containerToken.getKind()),
+          new Text(containerToken.getService()));
+      // the user in createRemoteUser in this context is not important
+      UserGroupInformation ugi = UserGroupInformation
+          .createRemoteUser(containerManagerBindAddr);
+      ugi.addToken(token);
+      ugiMap.putIfAbsent(containerManagerBindAddr, ugi);
+
+      user = ugiMap.get(containerManagerBindAddr);    
     }
     ContainerManager proxy =
         user.doAs(new PrivilegedAction<ContainerManager>() {