diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/utils/hdfs.py b/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/utils/hdfs.py
index 1d1714bf72d306680d0b92d2b618f66f0f62a2be..53fb92748d82c5d2d3575f8695bd2f1d4dc7832b 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/utils/hdfs.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/utils/hdfs.py
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ _logger = get_logger(
 
 class HDFSClient(object):
     """
-    A tool of HDFS 
+    A tool of HDFS
 
     Args:
-        hadoop_home (string): hadoop_home 
+        hadoop_home (string): hadoop_home
         configs (dict): hadoop config, it is a dict, please contain \
             key "fs.default.name" and "hadoop.job.ugi"
         Can be a float value
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ class HDFSClient(object):
 
         self.make_local_dirs(local_path)
 
-        all_files = client.ls(hdfs_path)
+        all_files = self.ls(hdfs_path)
 
         procs = []
         for i in range(multi_processes):