diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionFileSystem.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionFileSystem.java
index 3c2d3921a2e..904060f8013 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionFileSystem.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionFileSystem.java
@@ -986,12 +986,11 @@ public class HRegionFileSystem {
 
       // Write HRI to a file in case we need to recover hbase:meta
       regionFs.writeRegionInfoOnFilesystem(false);
-      return regionFs;
     } else {
       if (LOG.isDebugEnabled())
         LOG.debug("Skipping creation of .regioninfo file for " + regionInfo);
     }
-    return null;
+    return regionFs;
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestRegionOpen.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestRegionOpen.java
index 48ca4030c6c..7190d840a7f 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestRegionOpen.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestRegionOpen.java
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils;
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.ClassRule;
-import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
@@ -101,7 +100,6 @@ public class TestRegionOpen {
     assertEquals(completed + 1, exec.getCompletedTaskCount());
   }
 
-  @Ignore // Needs rewrite since HBASE-19391 which returns null out of createRegionOnFileSystem
   @Test
   public void testNonExistentRegionReplica() throws Exception {
     final TableName tableName = TableName.valueOf(name.getMethodName());