diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index a19cbfa2a8..8d4b4f96af 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -646,6 +646,8 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6894. Add XDR parser method for each NFS response.
     (Brandon Li via wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-7169. Add SE_BAD_FIELD to findbugsExcludeFile.xml.  (szetszwo)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-6690. Deduplicate xattr names in memory. (wang)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml
index bbfb9e9599..2ddc4cc501 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
      <Match>
        <Bug pattern="SE_COMPARATOR_SHOULD_BE_SERIALIZABLE" />
      </Match>
+     <Match>
+       <Bug pattern="SE_BAD_FIELD" />
+     </Match>
      <Match>
        <Class name="~.*_jsp" />
        <Bug pattern="DLS_DEAD_LOCAL_STORE" />