diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index c7dac6044f5..d07aa262f7b 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -683,6 +683,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     all Schedulers even when using ParameterizedSchedulerTestBase. 
     (Anubhav Dhoot via devaraj)
 
+    YARN-3270. Fix node label expression not getting set in 
+    ApplicationSubmissionContext (Rohit Agarwal via wangda)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-api/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/api/records/ApplicationSubmissionContext.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-api/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/api/records/ApplicationSubmissionContext.java
index f1ebbfea292..c4014fc6eec 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-api/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/api/records/ApplicationSubmissionContext.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-api/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/api/records/ApplicationSubmissionContext.java
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ public static ApplicationSubmissionContext newInstance(
     context.setMaxAppAttempts(maxAppAttempts);
     context.setApplicationType(applicationType);
     context.setKeepContainersAcrossApplicationAttempts(keepContainers);
+    context.setNodeLabelExpression(appLabelExpression);
     context.setAMContainerResourceRequest(resourceRequest);
     return context;
   }