diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSourceWALReader.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSourceWALReader.java
index 1ec797fb141..4643a226f98 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSourceWALReader.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSourceWALReader.java
@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ public class ReplicationSourceWALReader extends Thread {
   // (highly likely we've closed the current log), we've hit the max retries, and autorecovery is
   // enabled, then dump the log
   private void handleEofException(IOException e) {
-    if (e instanceof EOFException ||
-        e.getCause() instanceof EOFException && logQueue.size() > 1 && this.eofAutoRecovery) {
+    if ((e instanceof EOFException || e.getCause() instanceof EOFException) &&
+      logQueue.size() > 1 && this.eofAutoRecovery) {
       try {
         if (fs.getFileStatus(logQueue.peek()).getLen() == 0) {
           LOG.warn("Forcing removal of 0 length log in queue: " + logQueue.peek());