diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 4956760744..b31423bb5b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -397,12 +397,14 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-10102. Update commons IO from 2.1 to 2.4 (Akira Ajisaka via stevel)
 
+    HADOOP-10168. fix javadoc of ReflectionUtils#copy. (Thejas Nair via suresh)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-9748. Reduce blocking on UGI.ensureInitialized (daryn)
 
-   HADOOP-10047. Add a direct-buffer based apis for compression. (Gopal V
-   via acmurthy)
+    HADOOP-10047. Add a direct-buffer based apis for compression. (Gopal V
+    via acmurthy)
 
   BUG FIXES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ReflectionUtils.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ReflectionUtils.java
index be63c81620..3977e60287 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ReflectionUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ReflectionUtils.java
@@ -275,8 +275,9 @@ public class ReflectionUtils {
   
   /**
    * Make a copy of the writable object using serialization to a buffer
-   * @param dst the object to copy from
-   * @param src the object to copy into, which is destroyed
+   * @param src the object to copy from
+   * @param dst the object to copy into, which is destroyed
+   * @return dst param (the copy)
    * @throws IOException
    */
   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")