diff --git a/dev-support/test-patch.sh b/dev-support/test-patch.sh
index c051244b67..3800824a82 100755
--- a/dev-support/test-patch.sh
+++ b/dev-support/test-patch.sh
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ runTests () {
           ordered_modules="$ordered_modules $module"
       fi
   done
-  if [ -n $hdfs_modules ]; then
+  if [ -n "$hdfs_modules" ]; then
       ordered_modules="$ordered_modules $hdfs_modules"
       if [[ $building_common -eq 0 ]]; then
           echo "  Building hadoop-common with -Pnative in order to provide \
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index ed3adbb3c7..1bc8809077 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -277,6 +277,9 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
 
     HADOOP-8974. TestDFVariations fails on Windows. (Chris Nauroth via suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-9037. Bug in test-patch.sh and precommit build process (Kihwal Lee
+    via jlowe)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-7761. Improve the performance of raw comparisons. (todd)