diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index c8a8c060c7f..1b57a3dedef 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1345,6 +1345,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-4520. Finished app info is unnecessarily persisted in NM state-store
     if container is acquired but not lunched on this node. (sandflee via jianeh)
 
+    YARN-4643. Container recovery is broken with delegating container runtime
+    (Sidharta Seethana via jlowe)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/launcher/RecoveredContainerLaunch.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/launcher/RecoveredContainerLaunch.java
index d7b9ae28cd6..66f5a2a6a5e 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/launcher/RecoveredContainerLaunch.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/launcher/RecoveredContainerLaunch.java
@@ -83,9 +83,10 @@ public class RecoveredContainerLaunch extends ContainerLaunch {
         exec.activateContainer(containerId, pidFilePath);
         retCode = exec.reacquireContainer(
             new ContainerReacquisitionContext.Builder()
-            .setUser(container.getUser())
-            .setContainerId(containerId)
-            .build());
+                .setContainer(container)
+                .setUser(container.getUser())
+                .setContainerId(containerId)
+                .build());
       } else {
         LOG.warn("Unable to locate pid file for container " + containerIdStr);
       }
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestLinuxContainerExecutor.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestLinuxContainerExecutor.java
index 58debc91197..88ebf8dfcad 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestLinuxContainerExecutor.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestLinuxContainerExecutor.java
@@ -629,7 +629,16 @@ public class TestLinuxContainerExecutor {
     } catch (IOException e) {
       // expected if LCE isn't setup right, but not necessary for this test
     }
+
+    Container container = mock(Container.class);
+    ContainerLaunchContext context = mock(ContainerLaunchContext.class);
+    HashMap<String, String> env = new HashMap<>();
+
+    when(container.getLaunchContext()).thenReturn(context);
+    when(context.getEnvironment()).thenReturn(env);
+
     lce.reacquireContainer(new ContainerReacquisitionContext.Builder()
+        .setContainer(container)
         .setUser("foouser")
         .setContainerId(cid)
         .build());