diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 3880990a6c..bc560af475 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -664,6 +664,9 @@ Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10255. Rename HttpServer to HttpServer2 to retain older 
     HttpServer in branch-2 for compatibility. (Haohui Mai via suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-10291. TestSecurityUtil#testSocketAddrWithIP fails due to test
+    order dependency. (Mit Desai via Arpit Agarwal)
+
 Release 2.2.0 - 2013-10-13
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/TestSecurityUtil.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/TestSecurityUtil.java
index 6636243ba0..8c60734c59 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/TestSecurityUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/TestSecurityUtil.java
@@ -331,7 +331,9 @@ public class TestSecurityUtil {
 
   @Test
   public void testSocketAddrWithIP() {
-    verifyServiceAddr("127.0.0.1", "127.0.0.1");
+    String staticHost = "127.0.0.1";
+    NetUtils.addStaticResolution(staticHost, "localhost");
+    verifyServiceAddr(staticHost, "127.0.0.1");
   }
 
   @Test