diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 38a6f039680..a9c4070ae3d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10252. HttpServer can't start if hostname is not specified. (Jimmy
     Xiang via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-10203. Connection leak in
+    Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore#retrieveMetadata. (Andrei Savu via atm)
+
 Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore.java
index e05ed09f586..49266187057 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore.java
@@ -110,23 +110,29 @@ class Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore implements NativeFileSystemStore {
       handleS3ServiceException(e);
     }
   }
-  
+
   @Override
   public FileMetadata retrieveMetadata(String key) throws IOException {
+    StorageObject object = null;
     try {
       if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
         LOG.debug("Getting metadata for key: " + key + " from bucket:" + bucket.getName());
       }
-      S3Object object = s3Service.getObject(bucket.getName(), key);
+      object = s3Service.getObjectDetails(bucket.getName(), key);
       return new FileMetadata(key, object.getContentLength(),
           object.getLastModifiedDate().getTime());
-    } catch (S3ServiceException e) {
+
+    } catch (ServiceException e) {
       // Following is brittle. Is there a better way?
-      if (e.getS3ErrorCode().matches("NoSuchKey")) {
+      if ("NoSuchKey".equals(e.getErrorCode())) {
         return null; //return null if key not found
       }
-      handleS3ServiceException(e);
+      handleServiceException(e);
       return null; //never returned - keep compiler happy
+    } finally {
+      if (object != null) {
+        object.closeDataInputStream();
+      }
     }
   }