diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
index 30c48c4878b14..54b89c813010d 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
@@ -4201,6 +4201,12 @@ private void chooseExcessRedundancyStriped(BlockCollection bc,
       storage2index.put(storage, index);
     }
 
+    if (duplicated.isEmpty()) {
+      LOG.debug("Found no duplicated internal blocks for {}. Maybe it's " +
+          "because there are stale storages.", storedBlock);
+      return;
+    }
+
     // use delHint only if delHint is duplicated
     final DatanodeStorageInfo delStorageHint =
         DatanodeStorageInfo.getDatanodeStorageInfo(nonExcess, delNodeHint);