diff --git a/checkstyle/import-control.xml b/checkstyle/import-control.xml
index a562eef2d0e..18be1bb1421 100644
--- a/checkstyle/import-control.xml
+++ b/checkstyle/import-control.xml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 		<subpackage name="tools">
 			<allow pkg="org.apache.kafka.clients.producer" />
 			<allow pkg="org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer" />
-            <allow pkg="com.fasterxml.jackson.core" />
+            <allow pkg="com.fasterxml.jackson" />
             <allow pkg="net.sourceforge.argparse4j" />
 		</subpackage>
 	</subpackage>
diff --git a/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/tools/VerifiableProducer.java b/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/tools/VerifiableProducer.java
index 204166a25e7..b04876f8fc7 100644
--- a/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/tools/VerifiableProducer.java
+++ b/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/tools/VerifiableProducer.java
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ public class VerifiableProducer {
         try {
             ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
             json = mapper.writeValueAsString(data);
-        } catch(JsonProcessingException e) {
+        } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
             json = "Bad data can't be written as json: " + e.getMessage();
         }
         return json;