diff --git a/java/memory/memory-netty/src/main/java/io/netty/buffer/PooledByteBufAllocatorL.java b/java/memory/memory-netty/src/main/java/io/netty/buffer/PooledByteBufAllocatorL.java
index 8364b4a258889..d0a5a9945ce20 100644
--- a/java/memory/memory-netty/src/main/java/io/netty/buffer/PooledByteBufAllocatorL.java
+++ b/java/memory/memory-netty/src/main/java/io/netty/buffer/PooledByteBufAllocatorL.java
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ public InnerAllocator() {
     }
 
     private UnsafeDirectLittleEndian newDirectBufferL(int initialCapacity, int maxCapacity) {
-      PoolArenasCache cache = threadCache();
+      PoolThreadCache cache = threadCache();
       PoolArena<ByteBuffer> directArena = cache.directArena;
 
       if (directArena != null) {