diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 63daf66a3e..e3b559eaf3 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5679. TestJobHistoryParsing has race condition (Liyin Liang via
     jlowe)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5687. Fixed failure in TestYARNRunner caused by YARN-1446. (Jian He
+    via vinodkv)
+
 Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TestYARNRunner.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TestYARNRunner.java
index 0c08b813ae..025a10f912 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TestYARNRunner.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TestYARNRunner.java
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords.GetQueueUserAclsInfoRequest;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords.GetQueueUserAclsInfoResponse;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords.KillApplicationRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords.KillApplicationResponse;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ApplicationId;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ApplicationReport;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ApplicationSubmissionContext;
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ protected void serviceStart() throws Exception {
     };
     /* make sure kill calls finish application master */
     when(clientRMProtocol.forceKillApplication(any(KillApplicationRequest.class)))
-    .thenReturn(null);
+    .thenReturn(KillApplicationResponse.newInstance(true));
     delegate.killApplication(appId);
     verify(clientRMProtocol).forceKillApplication(any(KillApplicationRequest.class));