diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-EC-7285.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-EC-7285.txt
index d6c9dba695..48bc9d6919 100755
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-EC-7285.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-EC-7285.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 
     HDFS-8023. Erasure Coding: retrieve eraure coding schema for a file from
     NameNode (vinayakumarb)
-    
+
     HDFS-8074. Define a system-wide default EC schema. (Kai Zheng)
 
     HDFS-8077. Erasure coding: fix bugs in EC zone and symlinks.
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 
     HDFS-8216. TestDFSStripedOutputStream should use BlockReaderTestUtil to 
     create BlockReader. (szetszwo via Zhe Zhang)
-    
+
     HDFS-8212. DistributedFileSystem.createErasureCodingZone should pass schema
     in FileSystemLinkResolver. (szetszwo via Zhe Zhang)
 
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
 
     HDFS-8324. Add trace info to DFSClient#getErasureCodingZoneInfo(..) (vinayakumarb via 
     umamahesh)
-    
+
     HDFS-7672. Handle write failure for stripping blocks and refactor the
     existing code in DFSStripedOutputStream and StripedDataStreamer.  (szetszwo)
 
@@ -235,3 +235,6 @@
     (Rakesh R via waltersu4549)
 
     HDFS-8375. Add cellSize as an XAttr to ECZone. ( Vinayakumar B via zhz).
+
+    HDFS-8428. Erasure Coding: Fix the NullPointerException when deleting file.
+    (Yi Liu via zhz).
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
index 28e7b89e06..fc1396580d 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
@@ -3396,7 +3396,7 @@ public void processIncrementalBlockReport(final DatanodeID nodeID,
     for (ReceivedDeletedBlockInfo rdbi : srdb.getBlocks()) {
       switch (rdbi.getStatus()) {
       case DELETED_BLOCK:
-        removeStoredBlock(storageInfo, getStoredBlock(rdbi.getBlock()), node);
+        removeStoredBlock(storageInfo, rdbi.getBlock(), node);
         deleted++;
         break;
       case RECEIVED_BLOCK: