From eeb39dc21853f2e670d6be76d8fe3f002d559f42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Patrick Mccabe <cmccabe@cloudera.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:29:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] HDFS-7194 Fix findbugs "inefficient new String constructor"
 warning in DFSClient#PATH (yzhang via cmccabe) (cherry picked from commit
 8dc6abf2f4218b2d84b2c2dc7d18623d897c362d)

---
 hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt                   | 4 ++++
 .../src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java       | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 337284a06d3..2ec50048ad8 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
   NEW FEATURES
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
+
     HDFS-7055. Add tracing to DFSInputStream (cmccabe)
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
+    
+    HDFS-7194. Fix findbugs "inefficient new String constructor" warning in
+    DFSClient#PATH (yzhang via cmccabe)
 
 Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java
index 86faf1853d1..f54d325b71f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java
@@ -3174,8 +3174,7 @@ public class DFSClient implements java.io.Closeable, RemotePeerFactory,
     return saslClient;
   }
 
-  private static final byte[] PATH =
-      new String("path").getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
+  private static final byte[] PATH = "path".getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
 
   TraceScope getPathTraceScope(String description, String path) {
     TraceScope scope = Trace.startSpan(description, traceSampler);