diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/TestRequestAttributes.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/TestRequestAttributes.java
index 686dce1b4c9f..1169ff9d365d 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/TestRequestAttributes.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/TestRequestAttributes.java
@@ -352,8 +352,7 @@ private Map<String, byte[]> getRequestAttributesForRowKey(byte[] rowKey) {
       return null;
     }
 
-    private boolean isValidRequestAttributes(Map<String, byte[]> requestAttributes)
-      throws IOException {
+    private boolean isValidRequestAttributes(Map<String, byte[]> requestAttributes) {
       RpcCall rpcCall = RpcServer.getCurrentCall().get();
       Map<String, byte[]> attrs = rpcCall.getRequestAttributes();
       if (attrs.size() != requestAttributes.size()) {