diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index f6277d39bc6..ee9d621eace 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 * SOLR-7385: The clusterstatus API now returns the config set used to create a collection
   inside a 'configName' key. (Shai Erera, shalin)
 
+* SOLR-7401: Fixed a NullPointerException when concurrently creating and deleting collections,
+  while accessing other collections. (Shai Erera)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java
index 335908e5f7d..0005f5837d0 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java
@@ -666,13 +666,13 @@ public class SolrDispatchFilter extends BaseSolrFilter {
       slices = new ArrayList<>();
       // look by core name
       byCoreName = true;
-      slices = getSlicesForCollections(clusterState, slices, true);
-      if (slices == null || slices.size() == 0) {
-        slices = getSlicesForCollections(clusterState, slices, false);
+      getSlicesForCollections(clusterState, slices, true);
+      if (slices.isEmpty()) {
+        getSlicesForCollections(clusterState, slices, false);
       }
     }
     
-    if (slices == null || slices.size() == 0) {
+    if (slices.isEmpty()) {
       return null;
     }
     
@@ -723,17 +723,23 @@ public class SolrDispatchFilter extends BaseSolrFilter {
     return null;
   }
 
-  private Collection<Slice> getSlicesForCollections(ClusterState clusterState,
+  private void getSlicesForCollections(ClusterState clusterState,
       Collection<Slice> slices, boolean activeSlices) {
-    Set<String> collections = clusterState.getCollections();
-    for (String collection : collections) {
-      if (activeSlices) {
-        slices.addAll(clusterState.getActiveSlices(collection));
-      } else {
-        slices.addAll(clusterState.getSlices(collection));
+    if (activeSlices) {
+      for (String collection : clusterState.getCollections()) {
+        final Collection<Slice> activeCollectionSlices = clusterState.getActiveSlices(collection);
+        if (activeCollectionSlices != null) {
+          slices.addAll(activeCollectionSlices);
+        }
+      }
+    } else {
+      for (String collection : clusterState.getCollections()) {
+        final Collection<Slice> collectionSlices = clusterState.getSlices(collection);
+        if (collectionSlices != null) {
+          slices.addAll(collectionSlices);
+        }
       }
     }
-    return slices;
   }
 
   private SolrCore getCoreByCollection(CoreContainer cores, String corename) {
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/ConcurrentDeleteAndCreateCollectionTest.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/ConcurrentDeleteAndCreateCollectionTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..df939847a03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/ConcurrentDeleteAndCreateCollectionTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+package org.apache.solr.cloud;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
+
+import org.apache.solr.SolrTestCaseJ4;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrClient;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrQuery;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.CollectionAdminRequest;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.CollectionAdminResponse;
+import org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+
+public class ConcurrentDeleteAndCreateCollectionTest extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
+  
+  private MiniSolrCloudCluster solrCluster;
+  
+  @Override
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() throws Exception {
+    super.setUp();
+    final File solrXml = getFile("solrj").toPath().resolve("solr/solr.xml").toFile();
+    solrCluster = new MiniSolrCloudCluster(1, createTempDir().toFile(), solrXml, buildJettyConfig("/solr"));
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  @After
+  public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+    solrCluster.shutdown();
+    super.tearDown();
+  }
+  
+  public void testConcurrentCreateAndDeleteDoesNotFail() {
+    final File configDir = getFile("solrj").toPath().resolve("solr/configsets/configset-2/conf").toFile();
+    final AtomicReference<Exception> failure = new AtomicReference<>();
+    final int timeToRunSec = 30;
+    final Thread[] threads = new Thread[10];
+    for (int i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
+      final String collectionName = "collection" + i;
+      uploadConfig(configDir, collectionName);
+      final SolrClient solrClient = new HttpSolrClient(solrCluster.getJettySolrRunners().get(0).getBaseUrl().toString());
+      threads[i] = new CreateDeleteCollectionThread("create-delete-" + i, collectionName, timeToRunSec, solrClient, failure);
+    }
+    
+    startAll(threads);
+    joinAll(threads);
+    
+    assertNull("concurrent create and delete collection failed: " + failure.get(), failure.get());
+  }
+  
+  private void uploadConfig(File configDir, String configName) {
+    try {
+      solrCluster.uploadConfigDir(configDir, configName);
+    } catch (IOException | KeeperException | InterruptedException e) {
+      throw new RuntimeException(e);
+    }
+  }
+  
+  private void joinAll(final Thread[] threads) {
+    for (Thread t : threads) {
+      try {
+        t.join();
+      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+        Thread.interrupted();
+        throw new RuntimeException(e);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  
+  private void startAll(final Thread[] threads) {
+    for (Thread t : threads) {
+      t.start();
+    }
+  }
+  
+  private static class CreateDeleteCollectionThread extends Thread {
+    private final String collectionName;
+    private final long timeToRunSec;
+    private final SolrClient solrClient;
+    private final AtomicReference<Exception> failure;
+    
+    public CreateDeleteCollectionThread(String name, String collectionName,
+        long timeToRunSec, SolrClient solrClient, AtomicReference<Exception> failure) {
+      super(name);
+      this.collectionName = collectionName;
+      this.timeToRunSec = timeToRunSec;
+      this.solrClient = solrClient;
+      this.failure = failure;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+      final long timeToStop = System.currentTimeMillis() + TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(timeToRunSec);
+      while (System.currentTimeMillis() < timeToStop && failure.get() == null) {
+        createCollection(collectionName);
+        deleteCollection();
+        searchNonExistingCollection();
+      }
+    }
+    
+    private void searchNonExistingCollection() {
+      try {
+        solrClient.query(collectionName, new SolrQuery("*"));
+      } catch (Exception e) {
+        if (!e.getMessage().contains("not found") && !e.getMessage().contains("Can not find")) {
+          synchronized (failure) {
+            if (failure.get() != null) {
+              failure.get().addSuppressed(e);
+            } else {
+              failure.set(e);
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    
+    private void createCollection(String collectionName) {
+      try {
+        final CollectionAdminRequest.Create createCollectionRequest = new CollectionAdminRequest.Create();
+        createCollectionRequest.setCollectionName(collectionName);
+        createCollectionRequest.setNumShards(1);
+        createCollectionRequest.setReplicationFactor(1);
+        createCollectionRequest.setConfigName(collectionName);
+        
+        final CollectionAdminResponse response = createCollectionRequest.process(solrClient);
+        assertEquals(0, response.getStatus());
+      } catch (IOException | SolrServerException e) {
+        throw new RuntimeException(e);
+      }
+      
+    }
+    
+    private void deleteCollection() {
+      try {
+        final CollectionAdminRequest.Delete deleteCollectionRequest = new CollectionAdminRequest.Delete();
+        deleteCollectionRequest.setCollectionName(collectionName);
+        
+        final CollectionAdminResponse response = deleteCollectionRequest.process(solrClient);
+        assertEquals(0, response.getStatus());
+      } catch (IOException | SolrServerException e) {
+        throw new RuntimeException(e);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  
+}
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