diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f831d1a120..7d0cbee0de 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     HADOOP-11653. shellprofiles should require .sh extension
     (Brahma Reddy Battula via aw)
 
+    HADOOP-11668. hadoop-daemons.sh bw compat broke with --slaves change
+    (Vinayakumar B via aw)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-7761. Improve the performance of raw comparisons. (todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemons.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemons.sh
index 9e4e6b00fa..2619ab798b 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemons.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemons.sh
@@ -65,8 +65,13 @@ hadoop_error "WARNING: Attempting to execute replacement \"hdfs --slaves --daemo
 # we're going to turn this into
 #  hdfs --slaves --daemon (start|stop) (rest of options)
 #
-argv=(${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[@]/start})
-argv=(${argv[@]/stop})
-argv=(${argv[@]/status})
+for (( i = 0; i < ${#HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[@]}; i++ ))
+do
+  if [[ "${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[$i]}" =~ ^start$ ]] ||
+     [[ "${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[$i]}" =~ ^stop$ ]] ||
+     [[ "${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[$i]}" =~ ^status$ ]]; then
+    unset HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[$i]
+  fi
+done
 
-${hdfsscript} --slaves --daemon "${daemonmode}" "${argv[@]}"
+${hdfsscript} --slaves --daemon "${daemonmode}" "${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[@]}"
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-functions.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-functions.sh
index 9488e3cd1d..8129c5c8a5 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-functions.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-functions.sh
@@ -415,7 +415,19 @@ function hadoop_common_slave_mode_execute
 
   # if --slaves is still on the command line, remove it
   # to prevent loops
-  argv=(${argv[@]/--slaves})
+  # Also remove --hostnames and --hosts along with arg values
+  local argsSize=${#argv[@]};
+  for (( i = 0; i < $argsSize; i++ ))
+  do
+    if [[ "${argv[$i]}" =~ ^--slaves$ ]]; then
+      unset argv[$i]
+    elif [[ "${argv[$i]}" =~ ^--hostnames$ ]] ||
+      [[ "${argv[$i]}" =~ ^--hosts$ ]]; then
+      unset argv[$i];
+      let i++;
+      unset argv[$i];
+    fi
+  done
   hadoop_connect_to_hosts -- "${argv[@]}"
 }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemons.sh b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemons.sh
index c6963d9883..75fb1f8205 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemons.sh
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemons.sh
@@ -55,9 +55,14 @@ hadoop_error "WARNING: Attempting to execute replacement \"yarn --slaves --daemo
 # we're going to turn this into
 #  yarn --slaves --daemon (start|stop) (rest of options)
 #
-argv=(${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[@]/start})
-argv=(${argv[@]/stop})
-argv=(${argv[@]/status})
+for (( i = 0; i < ${#HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[@]}; i++ ))
+do
+  if [[ "${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[$i]}" =~ ^start$ ]] ||
+     [[ "${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[$i]}" =~ ^stop$ ]] ||
+     [[ "${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[$i]}" =~ ^status$ ]]; then
+    unset HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[$i]
+  fi
+done
 
-${yarnscript} --slaves --daemon "${daemonmode}" "${argv[@]}"
+${yarnscript} --slaves --daemon "${daemonmode}" "${HADOOP_USER_PARAMS[@]}"