diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/IndexedRowMatrix.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/IndexedRowMatrix.scala
index b447441890d4a..1c33b43ea7a8a 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/IndexedRowMatrix.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/IndexedRowMatrix.scala
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class IndexedRowMatrix(
       val indexedRows = indices.zip(svd.U.rows).map { case (i, v) =>
         IndexedRow(i, v)
       }
-      new IndexedRowMatrix(indexedRows, svd.U.numRows(), svd.U.numCols().toInt)
+      new IndexedRowMatrix(indexedRows, nRows, svd.U.numCols().toInt)
     } else {
       null
     }