diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 914b1bc968a..5760f348b89 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3465. Use LinkedHashMap to preserve order of resource requests. 
     (Zhihai Xu via kasha)
 
+    YARN-3516. killing ContainerLocalizer action doesn't take effect when
+    private localizer receives FETCH_FAILURE status.(zhihai xu via xgong)
+
+
 Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
 
   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/localizer/ResourceLocalizationService.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/ResourceLocalizationService.java
index dd50eadf458..bb0594658a0 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/ResourceLocalizationService.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/ResourceLocalizationService.java
@@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ public class ResourceLocalizationService extends CompositeService
           case FETCH_FAILURE:
             final String diagnostics = stat.getException().toString();
             LOG.warn(req + " failed: " + diagnostics);
-            response.setLocalizerAction(LocalizerAction.DIE);
+            action = LocalizerAction.DIE;
             getLocalResourcesTracker(req.getVisibility(), user, applicationId)
               .handle(new ResourceFailedLocalizationEvent(
                   req, diagnostics));