diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index a870ca53b8c..800f5964091 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -589,6 +589,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3805. Update the documentation of Disk Checker based on YARN-90.
     (Masatake Iwasaki via ozawa)
 
+    YARN-3930. FileSystemNodeLabelsStore should make sure edit log file closed when 
+    exception is thrown. (Dian Fu via wangda)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/nodelabels/FileSystemNodeLabelsStore.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/nodelabels/FileSystemNodeLabelsStore.java
index f26e2048a02..abf07e805a2 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/nodelabels/FileSystemNodeLabelsStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/nodelabels/FileSystemNodeLabelsStore.java
@@ -127,31 +127,40 @@ private void ensureCloseEditlogFile() throws IOException {
   @Override
   public void updateNodeToLabelsMappings(
       Map<NodeId, Set<String>> nodeToLabels) throws IOException {
-    ensureAppendEditlogFile();
-    editlogOs.writeInt(SerializedLogType.NODE_TO_LABELS.ordinal());
-    ((ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequestPBImpl) ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequest
-        .newInstance(nodeToLabels)).getProto().writeDelimitedTo(editlogOs);
-    ensureCloseEditlogFile();
+    try {
+      ensureAppendEditlogFile();
+      editlogOs.writeInt(SerializedLogType.NODE_TO_LABELS.ordinal());
+      ((ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequestPBImpl) ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequest
+          .newInstance(nodeToLabels)).getProto().writeDelimitedTo(editlogOs);
+    } finally {
+      ensureCloseEditlogFile();
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
   public void storeNewClusterNodeLabels(List<NodeLabel> labels)
       throws IOException {
-    ensureAppendEditlogFile();
-    editlogOs.writeInt(SerializedLogType.ADD_LABELS.ordinal());
-    ((AddToClusterNodeLabelsRequestPBImpl) AddToClusterNodeLabelsRequest
-        .newInstance(labels)).getProto().writeDelimitedTo(editlogOs);
-    ensureCloseEditlogFile();
+    try {
+      ensureAppendEditlogFile();
+      editlogOs.writeInt(SerializedLogType.ADD_LABELS.ordinal());
+      ((AddToClusterNodeLabelsRequestPBImpl) AddToClusterNodeLabelsRequest
+          .newInstance(labels)).getProto().writeDelimitedTo(editlogOs);
+    } finally {
+      ensureCloseEditlogFile();
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
   public void removeClusterNodeLabels(Collection<String> labels)
       throws IOException {
-    ensureAppendEditlogFile();
-    editlogOs.writeInt(SerializedLogType.REMOVE_LABELS.ordinal());
-    ((RemoveFromClusterNodeLabelsRequestPBImpl) RemoveFromClusterNodeLabelsRequest.newInstance(Sets
-        .newHashSet(labels.iterator()))).getProto().writeDelimitedTo(editlogOs);
-    ensureCloseEditlogFile();
+    try {
+      ensureAppendEditlogFile();
+      editlogOs.writeInt(SerializedLogType.REMOVE_LABELS.ordinal());
+      ((RemoveFromClusterNodeLabelsRequestPBImpl) RemoveFromClusterNodeLabelsRequest.newInstance(Sets
+          .newHashSet(labels.iterator()))).getProto().writeDelimitedTo(editlogOs);
+    } finally {
+      ensureCloseEditlogFile();
+    }
   }
 
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