diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
index b98ac0bd921b2..efc260b299cbd 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
@@ -726,4 +726,5 @@
     <Package name="org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.capacity.placement.schema" />
   </Match>
 
+  <Match><Bug pattern="PA_PUBLIC_PRIMITIVE_ATTRIBUTE"/></Match>
 </FindBugsFilter>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
index 657b6ba79c2f5..83a3f86850169 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@
         <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
           <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
+          <excludeFilterFile>
+             ${basedir}/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
+          </excludeFilterFile>
+          <effort>Max</effort>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>