diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 02144fba2c..4e25997871 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -653,6 +653,8 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11283. SequenceFile.Writer can leak file descriptors in
     DistCpV1#setup(). (Varun Saxena via ozawa)
 
+    HADOOP-11448. Fix findbugs warnings in FileBasedIPList. (ozawa)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/FileBasedIPList.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/FileBasedIPList.java
index dfa514a6a0..b0c12be731 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/FileBasedIPList.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/FileBasedIPList.java
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ public class FileBasedIPList implements IPList {
 
   public FileBasedIPList(String fileName) {
     this.fileName = fileName;
-    String[] lines = new String[0];
+    String[] lines;
     try {
       lines = readLines(fileName);
     } catch (IOException e) {