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 81b88256560..58413618df0 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
@@ -658,4 +658,11 @@
     <Bug pattern="NP_NULL_ON_SOME_PATH" />
   </Match>
 
+  <!-- Expose the reference to avoid performance overhead -->
+  <Match>
+    <Class name="org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.Resource" />
+    <Method name="getResources" />
+    <Bug pattern="EI_EXPOSE_REP" />
+  </Match>
+
 </FindBugsFilter>