diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/TaskSetManager.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/TaskSetManager.scala
index 02d374dc37cd5..3968fb7e6356d 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/TaskSetManager.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/TaskSetManager.scala
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ private[spark] class TaskSetManager(
   private[scheduler] var emittedTaskSizeWarning = false
 
   /** Add a task to all the pending-task lists that it should be on. */
-  private def addPendingTask(index: Int) {
+  private[spark] def addPendingTask(index: Int) {
     for (loc <- tasks(index).preferredLocations) {
       loc match {
         case e: ExecutorCacheTaskLocation =>
@@ -832,15 +832,6 @@ private[spark] class TaskSetManager(
 
     sched.dagScheduler.taskEnded(tasks(index), reason, null, accumUpdates, info)
 
-    if (successful(index)) {
-      logInfo(s"Task ${info.id} in stage ${taskSet.id} (TID $tid) failed, but the task will not" +
-        s" be re-executed (either because the task failed with a shuffle data fetch failure," +
-        s" so the previous stage needs to be re-run, or because a different copy of the task" +
-        s" has already succeeded).")
-    } else {
-      addPendingTask(index)
-    }
-
     if (!isZombie && reason.countTowardsTaskFailures) {
       taskSetBlacklistHelperOpt.foreach(_.updateBlacklistForFailedTask(
         info.host, info.executorId, index))
@@ -854,6 +845,16 @@ private[spark] class TaskSetManager(
         return
       }
     }
+
+    if (successful(index)) {
+      logInfo(s"Task ${info.id} in stage ${taskSet.id} (TID $tid) failed, but the task will not" +
+        s" be re-executed (either because the task failed with a shuffle data fetch failure," +
+        s" so the previous stage needs to be re-run, or because a different copy of the task" +
+        s" has already succeeded).")
+    } else {
+      addPendingTask(index)
+    }
+
     maybeFinishTaskSet()
   }
 
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/TaskSetManagerSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/TaskSetManagerSuite.scala
index 80fb674725814..e46900e4e5049 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/TaskSetManagerSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/TaskSetManagerSuite.scala
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import scala.collection.mutable
 import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
 
 import org.mockito.Matchers.{any, anyInt, anyString}
-import org.mockito.Mockito.{mock, never, spy, verify, when}
+import org.mockito.Mockito.{mock, never, spy, times, verify, when}
 import org.mockito.invocation.InvocationOnMock
 import org.mockito.stubbing.Answer
 
@@ -1172,6 +1172,48 @@ class TaskSetManagerSuite extends SparkFunSuite with LocalSparkContext with Logg
     assert(blacklistTracker.isNodeBlacklisted("host1"))
   }
 
+  test("update blacklist before adding pending task to avoid race condition") {
+    // When a task fails, it should apply the blacklist policy prior to
+    // retrying the task otherwise there's a race condition where run on
+    // the same executor that it was intended to be black listed from.
+    val conf = new SparkConf().
+      set(config.BLACKLIST_ENABLED, true)
+
+    // Create a task with two executors.
+    sc = new SparkContext("local", "test", conf)
+    val exec = "executor1"
+    val host = "host1"
+    val exec2 = "executor2"
+    val host2 = "host2"
+    sched = new FakeTaskScheduler(sc, (exec, host), (exec2, host2))
+    val taskSet = FakeTask.createTaskSet(1)
+
+    val clock = new ManualClock
+    val mockListenerBus = mock(classOf[LiveListenerBus])
+    val blacklistTracker = new BlacklistTracker(mockListenerBus, conf, None, clock)
+    val taskSetManager = new TaskSetManager(sched, taskSet, 1, Some(blacklistTracker))
+    val taskSetManagerSpy = spy(taskSetManager)
+
+    val taskDesc = taskSetManagerSpy.resourceOffer(exec, host, TaskLocality.ANY)
+
+    // Assert the task has been black listed on the executor it was last executed on.
+    when(taskSetManagerSpy.addPendingTask(anyInt())).thenAnswer(
+      new Answer[Unit] {
+        override def answer(invocationOnMock: InvocationOnMock): Unit = {
+          val task = invocationOnMock.getArgumentAt(0, classOf[Int])
+          assert(taskSetManager.taskSetBlacklistHelperOpt.get.
+            isExecutorBlacklistedForTask(exec, task))
+        }
+      }
+    )
+
+    // Simulate a fake exception
+    val e = new ExceptionFailure("a", "b", Array(), "c", None)
+    taskSetManagerSpy.handleFailedTask(taskDesc.get.taskId, TaskState.FAILED, e)
+
+    verify(taskSetManagerSpy, times(1)).addPendingTask(anyInt())
+  }
+
   private def createTaskResult(
       id: Int,
       accumUpdates: Seq[AccumulatorV2[_, _]] = Seq.empty): DirectTaskResult[Int] = {