diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 22f80702a39..08fc4c6c1af 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-9500. TestUserGroupInformation#testGetServerSideGroups fails on 
     Windows due to failure to find winutils.exe. (Chris Nauroth via suresh)
+
+    HADOOP-9490. LocalFileSystem#reportChecksumFailure not closing the 
+    checksum file handle before rename. (Ivan Mitic via suresh)
     
 Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LocalFileSystem.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LocalFileSystem.java
index 7db348c557d..879d7212c89 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LocalFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LocalFileSystem.java
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ public boolean reportChecksumFailure(Path p, FSDataInputStream in,
       }
       // move checksum file too
       File checkFile = ((RawLocalFileSystem)fs).pathToFile(getChecksumFile(p));
+      // close the stream before rename to release the file handle
+      sums.close();
       b = checkFile.renameTo(new File(badDir, checkFile.getName()+suffix));
       if (!b) {
           LOG.warn("Ignoring failure of renameTo");