diff --git a/dev-support/test-patch.sh b/dev-support/test-patch.sh
index 6325e6a193..f878f28de9 100755
--- a/dev-support/test-patch.sh
+++ b/dev-support/test-patch.sh
@@ -597,20 +597,23 @@ runTests () {
   echo "======================================================================"
   echo ""
   echo ""
-  
+
   echo "$MVN clean install test -Pnative -D${PROJECT_NAME}PatchProcess"
   $MVN clean install test -Pnative -D${PROJECT_NAME}PatchProcess
   if [[ $? != 0 ]] ; then
     ### Find and format names of failed tests
     failed_tests=`find . -name 'TEST*.xml' | xargs $GREP  -l -E "<failure|<error" | sed -e "s|.*target/surefire-reports/TEST-|                  |g" | sed -e "s|\.xml||g"`
-  fi
-  
-  if [[ -n "$failed_tests" ]] ; then
-  
-    JIRA_COMMENT="$JIRA_COMMENT
+
+    if [[ -n "$failed_tests" ]] ; then
+      JIRA_COMMENT="$JIRA_COMMENT
 
     -1 core tests.  The patch failed these unit tests:
 $failed_tests"
+    else
+      JIRA_COMMENT="$JIRA_COMMENT
+
+    -1 core tests.  The patch failed the unit tests build"
+    fi
     return 1
   fi
   JIRA_COMMENT="$JIRA_COMMENT
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 5433e4aff1..8e67b138bf 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -733,6 +733,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7724. Fixed hadoop-setup-conf.sh to put proxy user in
     core-site.xml.  (Arpit Gupta via Eric Yang)
 
+    HADOOP-7755. Detect MapReduce PreCommit Trunk builds silently failing
+    when running test-patch.sh. (Jonathan Eagles via tomwhite)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES