diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index d9e6180bc1..9e1bf59cf4 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -722,6 +722,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10542 Potential null pointer dereference in Jets3tFileSystemStore
     retrieveBlock(). (Ted Yu via stevel)	
 
+    HADOOP-10668. TestZKFailoverControllerStress#testExpireBackAndForth
+    occasionally fails. (Ming Ma via cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ha/ZKFailoverController.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ha/ZKFailoverController.java
index 46c485b1d9..f58c3f4de9 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ha/ZKFailoverController.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ha/ZKFailoverController.java
@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ protected abstract void checkRpcAdminAccess()
   public HAServiceTarget getLocalTarget() {
     return localTarget;
   }
-  
+
+  HAServiceState getServiceState() { return serviceState; }
+
   public int run(final String[] args) throws Exception {
     if (!localTarget.isAutoFailoverEnabled()) {
       LOG.fatal("Automatic failover is not enabled for " + localTarget + "." +
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ha/MiniZKFCCluster.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ha/MiniZKFCCluster.java
index 1db792453a..cab59a48af 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ha/MiniZKFCCluster.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ha/MiniZKFCCluster.java
@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ public void setUnreachable(int idx, boolean unreachable) {
    */
   public void waitForHAState(int idx, HAServiceState state)
       throws Exception {
-    DummyHAService svc = getService(idx);
-    while (svc.state != state) {
+    DummyZKFC svc = getZkfc(idx);
+    while (svc.getServiceState() != state) {
       ctx.checkException();
       Thread.sleep(50);
     }