diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeStateMachine.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeStateMachine.java
index 71a9e5bca9f..ae01c6da756 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeStateMachine.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeStateMachine.java
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.ContainerReportsProto;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.NodeReportProto;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.PipelineReportsProto;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.scm.client.ClientTrustManager;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.security.symmetric.SecretKeyClient;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.security.x509.certificate.client.CertificateClient;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.upgrade.HDDSLayoutVersionManager;
@@ -217,7 +216,6 @@ public DatanodeStateMachine(HddsDatanodeService hddsDatanodeService,
         ReplicationSupervisorMetrics.create(supervisor);
 
     ecReconstructionMetrics = ECReconstructionMetrics.create();
-    ClientTrustManager clientTrustManager = null;
     ecReconstructionCoordinator = new ECReconstructionCoordinator(
         conf, certClient, secretKeyClient, context, ecReconstructionMetrics,
         threadNamePrefix);