diff --git a/neutron_lib/api/validators.py b/neutron_lib/api/validators.py
index 50d31401e..2483fa289 100644
--- a/neutron_lib/api/validators.py
+++ b/neutron_lib/api/validators.py
@@ -649,14 +649,15 @@ _validate_uuid_list = functools.partial(_validate_list_of_items,
 
 
 # NOTE(boden): subbed out for docstring comments.
-def validate_uuid_list(data):
+def validate_uuid_list(data, valid_values=None):
     """Validate data is a list of UUID like values.
 
     :param data: The data to validate.
+    :param valid_values: Not used!
     :returns: None if data is an iterable that contains valid UUID values,
     otherwise a message is returned indicating why validation failed.
     """
-    return _validate_uuid_list(data)
+    return _validate_uuid_list(data, valid_values)
 
 
 def _validate_dict_item(key, key_validator, data):
diff --git a/neutron_lib/tests/unit/api/test_validators.py b/neutron_lib/tests/unit/api/test_validators.py
index 0d80fd6e7..64f0b4c01 100644
--- a/neutron_lib/tests/unit/api/test_validators.py
+++ b/neutron_lib/tests/unit/api/test_validators.py
@@ -738,6 +738,21 @@ class TestAttributeValidation(base.BaseTestCase):
         msg = validators.validate_uuid('00000000-ffff-ffff-ffff-000000000000')
         self.assertIsNone(msg)
 
+    def test_validate_uuid_list(self):
+        bad_uuid_list = ['00000000-ffff-ffff-ffff-000000000000',
+                         '00000000-ffff-ffff-ffff-000000000001',
+                         '123']
+        msg = validators.validate_uuid_list(bad_uuid_list,
+                                            valid_values='parameter not used')
+        error = "'%s' is not a valid UUID" % bad_uuid_list[2]
+        self.assertEqual(error, msg)
+
+        good_uuid_list = ['00000000-ffff-ffff-ffff-000000000000',
+                          '00000000-ffff-ffff-ffff-000000000001']
+        msg = validators.validate_uuid_list(good_uuid_list,
+                                            valid_values='parameter not used')
+        self.assertIsNone(msg)
+
     def test__validate_list_of_items(self):
         # check not a list
         items = [None,