diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index b0cc1fdeba..ce457bd51b 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-5881. Fix skip() of the short-circuit local reader(legacy). (kihwal)
 
+    HDFS-5895. HDFS cacheadmin -listPools has exit_code of 1 when the command
+    returns 0 result. (Tassapol Athiapinya via cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/CacheAdmin.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/CacheAdmin.java
index b3538daf52..290e60087f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/CacheAdmin.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/CacheAdmin.java
@@ -962,9 +962,8 @@ public int run(Configuration conf, List<String> args) throws IOException {
       if (numResults > 0) { 
         System.out.print(listing);
       }
-      // If there are no results, we return 1 (failure exit code);
-      // otherwise we return 0 (success exit code).
-      return (numResults == 0) ? 1 : 0;
+      // If list pools succeed, we return 0 (success exit code)
+      return 0;
     }
   }