diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index fcc5385972..57402e1a09 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -833,6 +833,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11176. KMSClientProvider authentication fails when both currentUgi
     and loginUgi are a proxied user. (Arun Suresh via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-11198. Fix typo in javadoc for FileSystem#listStatus().
+    (Li Lu via wheat9)
+
     BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-6134 AND HADOOP-10150 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
   
       HADOOP-10734. Implement high-performance secure random number sources.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ChecksumFileSystem.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ChecksumFileSystem.java
index c8d1b69dda..dfc895101c 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ChecksumFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ChecksumFileSystem.java
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ public abstract class ChecksumFileSystem extends FilterFileSystem {
    * 
    * @param f
    *          given path
-   * @return the statuses of the files/directories in the given patch
+   * @return the statuses of the files/directories in the given path
    * @throws IOException
    */
   @Override