diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/replication/ReplicationManager.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/replication/ReplicationManager.java
index 749448d4dfd..f36b2e27113 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/replication/ReplicationManager.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/replication/ReplicationManager.java
@@ -137,9 +137,10 @@ public class ReplicationManager {
       checkNamespacesAndTableCfsConfigConflict(peerConfig.getExcludeNamespaces(),
         peerConfig.getExcludeTableCFsMap());
     } else {
-      if ((peerConfig.getExcludeNamespaces() != null && !peerConfig.getNamespaces().isEmpty())
+      if ((peerConfig.getExcludeNamespaces() != null
+          && !peerConfig.getExcludeNamespaces().isEmpty())
           || (peerConfig.getExcludeTableCFsMap() != null
-              && !peerConfig.getTableCFsMap().isEmpty())) {
+              && !peerConfig.getExcludeTableCFsMap().isEmpty())) {
         throw new ReplicationException(
             "Need clean exclude-namespaces or exclude-table-cfs config firstly"
                 + " when replicate_all flag is false");