diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index c17c8eac0eb..0458a45d6e9 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3790  Fix NPE in ExecResult.write() with null return value
    HBASE-3781  hbase shell cannot start "NoMethodError: undefined method
                `close' for nil:NilClass" (Mikael Sitruk)
+   HBASE-3802  Redundant list creation in HRegion
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-3290  Max Compaction Size (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)  
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
index 43f2e331825..c065702412d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
@@ -3092,8 +3092,7 @@ public class HRegion implements HeapSize { // , Writable{
         get.addFamily(family);
       }
     }
-    List<KeyValue> results =  new ArrayList<KeyValue>();
-    results = get(get, true);
+    List<KeyValue> results = get(get, true);
     return new Result(results);
   }