diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/nodelabels/store/op/NodeLabelMirrorOp.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/nodelabels/store/op/NodeLabelMirrorOp.java
index 9500486645..64400fe6e6 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/nodelabels/store/op/NodeLabelMirrorOp.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/nodelabels/store/op/NodeLabelMirrorOp.java
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
     .AddToClusterNodeLabelsRequestPBImpl;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.api.protocolrecords.impl.pb
     .ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequestPBImpl;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -40,6 +42,8 @@
  */
 public class NodeLabelMirrorOp
     extends FSNodeStoreLogOp<CommonNodeLabelsManager> {
+  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(
+          NodeLabelMirrorOp.class);
 
   public NodeLabelMirrorOp() {
     super();
@@ -66,15 +70,20 @@ public void recover(InputStream is, CommonNodeLabelsManager mgr)
             .parseDelimitedFrom(is)).getNodeLabels();
     mgr.addToCluserNodeLabels(labels);
 
-    if (mgr.isCentralizedConfiguration()) {
-      // Only load node to labels mapping while using centralized
-      // configuration
-      Map<NodeId, Set<String>> nodeToLabels =
-          new ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequestPBImpl(
-              YarnServerResourceManagerServiceProtos
-                  .ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequestProto
-                  .parseDelimitedFrom(is)).getNodeToLabels();
-      mgr.replaceLabelsOnNode(nodeToLabels);
+    try {
+      if (mgr.isCentralizedConfiguration() && is.available() != 0) {
+        // Only load node to labels mapping while using centralized
+        // configuration
+        Map<NodeId, Set<String>> nodeToLabels =
+                new ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequestPBImpl(
+                        YarnServerResourceManagerServiceProtos
+                                .ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequestProto
+                                .parseDelimitedFrom(is)).getNodeToLabels();
+        mgr.replaceLabelsOnNode(nodeToLabels);
+      }
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      LOG.error("Errors on loading node to labels mapping while using "
+              + "centralized configuration", e);
     }
   }