diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/PeerCache.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/PeerCache.java
index a26a518a83..41578d4d50 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/PeerCache.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/PeerCache.java
@@ -155,10 +155,6 @@ public Peer get(DatanodeID dnId, boolean isDomain) {
 
   private synchronized Peer getInternal(DatanodeID dnId, boolean isDomain) {
     List<Value> sockStreamList = multimap.get(new Key(dnId, isDomain));
-    if (sockStreamList == null) {
-      return null;
-    }
-
     Iterator<Value> iter = sockStreamList.iterator();
     while (iter.hasNext()) {
       Value candidate = iter.next();