diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index f654f33c64..e62932cc87 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HDFS-2908. Add apache license header for StorageReport.java. (Brandon Li
     via jitendra)
 
+    HDFS-3037. TestMulitipleNNDataBlockScanner#testBlockScannerAfterRestart is
+    racy. (atm)
+
 Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestMulitipleNNDataBlockScanner.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestMulitipleNNDataBlockScanner.java
index 1b9a19c649..6862628263 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestMulitipleNNDataBlockScanner.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestMulitipleNNDataBlockScanner.java
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ public void testBlockScannerAfterRestart() throws IOException,
       cluster.waitActive();
       DataNode dn = cluster.getDataNodes().get(0);
       for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+        while (!dn.blockScanner.isInitialized(bpids[i])) {
+          Thread.sleep(1000);
+        }
         long blocksScanned = 0;
         while (blocksScanned != 20) {
           if (dn.blockScanner != null) {