diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 3b44b8bebe..f3ef49d242 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -537,6 +537,8 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     schedules incoming calls and multiplexes outgoing calls. (Chris Li via
     Arpit Agarwal)
 
+    HADOOP-10833. Remove unused cache in UserProvider. (Benoy Antony)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-10781. Unportable getgrouplist() usage breaks FreeBSD (Dmitry
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/alias/UserProvider.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/alias/UserProvider.java
index 99d6d0060d..262cbadd71 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/alias/UserProvider.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/alias/UserProvider.java
@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
@@ -41,8 +39,6 @@ public class UserProvider extends CredentialProvider {
   public static final String SCHEME_NAME = "user";
   private final UserGroupInformation user;
   private final Credentials credentials;
-  private final Map<String, CredentialEntry> cache = new HashMap<String, 
-      CredentialEntry>();
 
   private UserProvider() throws IOException {
     user = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser();
@@ -86,7 +82,6 @@ public synchronized void deleteCredentialEntry(String name) throws IOException {
       throw new IOException("Credential " + name + 
           " does not exist in " + this);
     }
-    cache.remove(name);
   }
 
   @Override