diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index d36c44f2d10..ff8c9750007 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ Other Changes
   (Mark Miller, Gregory Chanan)
 
 * SOLR-6459: Normalize logging of operations in Overseer and log current queue size.
-  (Ramkumar Aiyengar via Mark Miller)
+  (Ramkumar Aiyengar, shalin via Mark Miller)
 
 * SOLR-6754: ZkController.publish doesn't use the updateLastState parameter.
   (shalin)
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/Overseer.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/Overseer.java
index 0be295a7f31..7f13e81d4b7 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/Overseer.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/Overseer.java
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ public class Overseer implements Closeable {
 
                 final TimerContext timerContext = stats.time(operation);
                 try {
-                  clusterState = processMessage(clusterState, message, operation, workQueue.getStats().getQueueLength());
+                  clusterState = processMessage(clusterState, message, operation, stateUpdateQueue.getStats().getQueueLength());
                   stats.success(operation);
                 } catch (Exception e) {
                   // generally there is nothing we can do - in most cases, we have