diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 38916336782..c0c7fc6a85e 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
 
   BUG FIXES
 
+    YARN-383. AMRMClientImpl should handle null rmClient in stop()
+    (Hitesh Shah via sseth)
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
index bee8ce24e32..2d63dad48b8 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
@@ -249,4 +249,11 @@
     <Bug pattern="DMI_HARDCODED_ABSOLUTE_FILENAME" />
   </Match>
 
+  <!-- rmClient can be ignored as only code blocks outside of rpc calls need to be synchronized -->
+  <Match>
+    <Class name="org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.AMRMClientImpl" />
+    <Field name="rmClient" />
+    <Bug pattern="IS2_INCONSISTENT_SYNC" />
+  </Match>
+
 </FindBugsFilter>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e037a2ad04..00000000000
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-<!--
-   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
--->
-
-<FindBugsFilter>
-</FindBugsFilter>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/pom.xml
index b565cd28f8d..e34a5950e7a 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/pom.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
   <version>2.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>hadoop-yarn-client</name>
 
+  <properties>
+    <!-- Needed for generating FindBugs warnings using parent pom -->
+    <yarn.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</yarn.basedir>
+  </properties>
+
   <dependencies>
   	<dependency>
   		<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/AMRMClientImpl.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/AMRMClientImpl.java
index 15c250e8d5f..42b5adbbbff 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/AMRMClientImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/AMRMClientImpl.java
@@ -147,7 +147,9 @@ public class AMRMClientImpl extends AbstractService implements AMRMClient {
 
   @Override
   public synchronized void stop() {
-    RPC.stopProxy(this.rmClient);
+    if (this.rmClient != null) {
+      RPC.stopProxy(this.rmClient);
+    }
     super.stop();
   }
   
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
index 3fc933e84da..bf29d7b93e0 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
     <test.logs>true</test.logs>
     <test.timeout>600000</test.timeout>
     <fork.mode>once</fork.mode>
-    <mr.basedir>${basedir}</mr.basedir>
     <hadoop.component>yarn</hadoop.component>
     <is.hadoop.component>true</is.hadoop.component>
   </properties>
@@ -200,16 +199,6 @@
         </executions>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
-          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-          <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-          <configuration>
-            <findbugsXmlOutput>true</findbugsXmlOutput>
-            <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
-            <excludeFilterFile>${mr.basedir}/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml</excludeFilterFile>
-            <effort>Max</effort>
-          </configuration>
-       </plugin>
-       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>