diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 788a43a49b1..ba2e3353038 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3313  Table name isn't checked in isTableEnabled/isTableDisabled
                (Ted Yu via Stack)
    HBASE-3514  Speedup HFile.Writer append (Matteo Bertozzi via Ryan)
-   HBASE-3515  [replication] ReplicationSource can miss a log after RS comes
-               out of GC
    HBASE-3665  tighten assertions for testBloomFilterSize
    HBASE-3662  REST server does not respect client supplied max versions when
                creating scanner
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/HLog.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/HLog.java
index a846d06fefe..7569992535f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/HLog.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/HLog.java
@@ -504,9 +504,6 @@ public class HLog implements Syncable {
       }
 
       synchronized (updateLock) {
-        if (closed) {
-          return regionsToFlush;
-        }
         // Clean up current writer.
         Path oldFile = cleanupCurrentWriter(currentFilenum);
         this.writer = nextWriter;
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/TestReplication.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/TestReplication.java
index bd813defe66..999db15e67e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/TestReplication.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/TestReplication.java
@@ -517,6 +517,9 @@ public class TestReplication {
   /**
    * Load up multiple tables over 2 region servers and kill a source during
    * the upload. The failover happens internally.
+   *
+   * WARNING this test sometimes fails because of HBASE-3515
+   *
    * @throws Exception
    */
   @Test