diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 939dfed1f0d..1d7deca09a7 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-10609. .gitignore should ignore .orig and .rej files. (kasha)
 
+    HADOOP-10614. CBZip2InputStream is not threadsafe (Xiangrui Meng via
+    Sandy Ryza)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/CBZip2InputStream.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/CBZip2InputStream.java
index 00e892d8454..57fc07b617a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/CBZip2InputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/bzip2/CBZip2InputStream.java
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ public enum STATE {
   private int computedBlockCRC, computedCombinedCRC;
 
   private boolean skipResult = false;// used by skipToNextMarker
-  private static boolean skipDecompression = false;
+  private boolean skipDecompression = false;
 
   // Variables used by setup* methods exclusively
 
@@ -281,12 +281,18 @@ private void makeMaps() {
   */
   public CBZip2InputStream(final InputStream in, READ_MODE readMode)
       throws IOException {
+    this(in, readMode, false);
+  }
+
+  private CBZip2InputStream(final InputStream in, READ_MODE readMode, boolean skipDecompression)
+      throws IOException {
 
     super();
     int blockSize = 0X39;// i.e 9
     this.blockSize100k = blockSize - '0';
     this.in = new BufferedInputStream(in, 1024 * 9);// >1 MB buffer
     this.readMode = readMode;
+    this.skipDecompression = skipDecompression;
     if (readMode == READ_MODE.CONTINUOUS) {
       currentState = STATE.START_BLOCK_STATE;
       lazyInitialization = (in.available() == 0)?true:false;
@@ -316,11 +322,7 @@ public CBZip2InputStream(final InputStream in, READ_MODE readMode)
    *
    */
   public static long numberOfBytesTillNextMarker(final InputStream in) throws IOException{
-    CBZip2InputStream.skipDecompression = true;
-    CBZip2InputStream anObject = null;
-
-    anObject = new CBZip2InputStream(in, READ_MODE.BYBLOCK);
-
+    CBZip2InputStream anObject = new CBZip2InputStream(in, READ_MODE.BYBLOCK, true);
     return anObject.getProcessedByteCount();
   }
 
@@ -397,7 +399,7 @@ public int read(final byte[] dest, final int offs, final int len)
 
     if(skipDecompression){
       changeStateToProcessABlock();
-      CBZip2InputStream.skipDecompression = false;
+      skipDecompression = false;
     }
 
     final int hi = offs + len;