diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 1bc8809077..339fd513ab 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -369,6 +369,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
 
     HADOO-8998. set Cache-Control no-cache header on all dynamic content. (tucu)
 
+    HADOOP-9042. Add a test for umask in FileSystemContractBaseTest.
+    (Colin Patrick McCabe via eli)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-8866. SampleQuantiles#query is O(N^2) instead of O(N). (Andrew Wang
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystemContractBaseTest.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystemContractBaseTest.java
index 94c4b0c31f..4979462ccc 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystemContractBaseTest.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystemContractBaseTest.java
@@ -23,11 +23,13 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
 
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
 
 /**
  * <p>
@@ -151,6 +153,25 @@ public abstract class FileSystemContractBaseTest extends TestCase {
     assertFalse(fs.exists(testDeepSubDir));
     
   }
+
+  public void testMkdirsWithUmask() throws Exception {
+    if (fs.getScheme().equals("s3") || fs.getScheme().equals("s3n")) {
+      // skip permission tests for S3FileSystem until HDFS-1333 is fixed.
+      return;
+    }
+    Configuration conf = fs.getConf();
+    String oldUmask = conf.get(CommonConfigurationKeys.FS_PERMISSIONS_UMASK_KEY);
+    try {
+      conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeys.FS_PERMISSIONS_UMASK_KEY, "062");
+      final Path dir = new Path("/test/newDir");
+      assertTrue(fs.mkdirs(dir, new FsPermission((short)0777)));
+      FileStatus status = fs.getFileStatus(dir);
+      assertTrue(status.isDirectory());
+      assertEquals((short)0715, status.getPermission().toShort());
+    } finally {
+      conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeys.FS_PERMISSIONS_UMASK_KEY, oldUmask);
+    }
+  }
   
   public void testGetFileStatusThrowsExceptionForNonExistentFile() 
     throws Exception {