diff --git a/storage/tokudb/mysql-test/tokudb/t/i_s_tokudb_lock_waits_released.test b/storage/tokudb/mysql-test/tokudb/t/i_s_tokudb_lock_waits_released.test
index bd2257fbaed95..3fd6ddb88fe86 100644
--- a/storage/tokudb/mysql-test/tokudb/t/i_s_tokudb_lock_waits_released.test
+++ b/storage/tokudb/mysql-test/tokudb/t/i_s_tokudb_lock_waits_released.test
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+if (`select @@tokudb_version < "5.6.27"`)
+{
+  --skip Race condition in the test in TokuDB below 5.6.27
+}
+
 # verify that information_schema.tokudb_locks gets populated with locks, information_schema.tokudb_lock_waits gets
 # populated with 1 lock_wait and all transactions are present in information_schema.tokudb_trx for 2 clients
 
diff --git a/storage/tokudb/mysql-test/tokudb/t/i_s_tokudb_locks_released.test b/storage/tokudb/mysql-test/tokudb/t/i_s_tokudb_locks_released.test
index 4d6542446828f..19f413e79f9aa 100644
--- a/storage/tokudb/mysql-test/tokudb/t/i_s_tokudb_locks_released.test
+++ b/storage/tokudb/mysql-test/tokudb/t/i_s_tokudb_locks_released.test
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+if (`select @@tokudb_version < "5.6.27"`)
+{
+  --skip Race condition in the test in TokuDB below 5.6.27
+}
+
 # verify that information_schema.tokudb_locks gets populated with locks for 2 clients
 
 source include/have_tokudb.inc;