diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 9975b7bc71a..5bba4795181 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -837,6 +837,10 @@ Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-4096. App local logs are leaked if log aggregation fails to initialize
     for the app. (Jason Lowe via zxu)
 
+    YARN-4136. LinuxContainerExecutor loses info when forwarding
+    ResourceHandlerException. (Bibin A Chundatt via vvasudev)
+
+
 Release 2.7.1 - 2015-07-06
 
   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/LinuxContainerExecutor.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/LinuxContainerExecutor.java
index f8e58c1dddd..dac02936f77 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/LinuxContainerExecutor.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/LinuxContainerExecutor.java
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ public class LinuxContainerExecutor extends ContainerExecutor {
       }
     } catch (ResourceHandlerException e) {
       LOG.error("ResourceHandlerChain.preStart() failed!", e);
-      throw new IOException("ResourceHandlerChain.preStart() failed!");
+      throw new IOException("ResourceHandlerChain.preStart() failed!", e);
     }
 
     try {