diff --git a/tez-runtime-library/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/runtime/library/common/shuffle/ShuffleUtils.java b/tez-runtime-library/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/runtime/library/common/shuffle/ShuffleUtils.java
index bf58172ef1..df4281a94e 100644
--- a/tez-runtime-library/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/runtime/library/common/shuffle/ShuffleUtils.java
+++ b/tez-runtime-library/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/runtime/library/common/shuffle/ShuffleUtils.java
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ public static void shuffleToMemory(byte[] shuffleData,
         LOG.debug("Read " + shuffleData.length + " bytes from input for "
             + identifier);
       }
-    } catch (InternalError | IOException e) {
+    } catch (InternalError | Exception e) {
       // Close the streams
       LOG.info("Failed to read data to memory for " + identifier + ". len=" + compressedLength +
           ", decomp=" + decompressedLength + ". ExceptionMessage=" + e.getMessage());
@@ -135,9 +135,12 @@ public static void shuffleToMemory(byte[] shuffleData,
         // on decompression failures. Catching and re-throwing as IOException
         // to allow fetch failure logic to be processed.
         throw new IOException(e);
+      } else if (e instanceof IOException) {
+        throw e;
+      } else {
+        // Re-throw as an IOException
+        throw new IOException(e);
       }
-      // Re-throw
-      throw e;
     }
   }
   
diff --git a/tez-runtime-library/src/test/java/org/apache/tez/runtime/library/common/shuffle/TestShuffleUtils.java b/tez-runtime-library/src/test/java/org/apache/tez/runtime/library/common/shuffle/TestShuffleUtils.java
index 1d2d4280b5..f61c7e5f66 100644
--- a/tez-runtime-library/src/test/java/org/apache/tez/runtime/library/common/shuffle/TestShuffleUtils.java
+++ b/tez-runtime-library/src/test/java/org/apache/tez/runtime/library/common/shuffle/TestShuffleUtils.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.BitSet;
@@ -300,6 +301,58 @@ public void testInternalErrorTranslation() throws Exception {
     }
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testExceptionTranslation() throws Exception {
+    String codecErrorMsg = "codec failure";
+    CompressionInputStream mockCodecStream = mock(CompressionInputStream.class);
+    when(mockCodecStream.read(any(byte[].class), anyInt(), anyInt()))
+        .thenThrow(new IllegalArgumentException(codecErrorMsg));
+    Decompressor mockDecoder = mock(Decompressor.class);
+    CompressionCodec mockCodec = mock(CompressionCodec.class);
+    when(mockCodec.createDecompressor()).thenReturn(mockDecoder);
+    when(mockCodec.createInputStream(any(InputStream.class), any(Decompressor.class)))
+        .thenReturn(mockCodecStream);
+    byte[] header = new byte[] { (byte) 'T', (byte) 'I', (byte) 'F', (byte) 1};
+    try {
+      ShuffleUtils.shuffleToMemory(new byte[1024], new ByteArrayInputStream(header),
+          1024, 128, mockCodec, false, 0, mock(Logger.class), null);
+      Assert.fail("shuffle was supposed to throw!");
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      Assert.assertTrue(e.getCause() instanceof IllegalArgumentException);
+      Assert.assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains(codecErrorMsg));
+    }
+    CompressionInputStream mockCodecStream1 = mock(CompressionInputStream.class);
+    when(mockCodecStream1.read(any(byte[].class), anyInt(), anyInt()))
+        .thenThrow(new SocketTimeoutException(codecErrorMsg));
+    CompressionCodec mockCodec1 = mock(CompressionCodec.class);
+    when(mockCodec1.createDecompressor()).thenReturn(mockDecoder);
+    when(mockCodec1.createInputStream(any(InputStream.class), any(Decompressor.class)))
+        .thenReturn(mockCodecStream1);
+    try {
+      ShuffleUtils.shuffleToMemory(new byte[1024], new ByteArrayInputStream(header),
+          1024, 128, mockCodec1, false, 0, mock(Logger.class), null);
+      Assert.fail("shuffle was supposed to throw!");
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      Assert.assertTrue(e instanceof SocketTimeoutException);
+      Assert.assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains(codecErrorMsg));
+    }
+    CompressionInputStream mockCodecStream2 = mock(CompressionInputStream.class);
+    when(mockCodecStream2.read(any(byte[].class), anyInt(), anyInt()))
+        .thenThrow(new InternalError(codecErrorMsg));
+    CompressionCodec mockCodec2 = mock(CompressionCodec.class);
+    when(mockCodec2.createDecompressor()).thenReturn(mockDecoder);
+    when(mockCodec2.createInputStream(any(InputStream.class), any(Decompressor.class)))
+        .thenReturn(mockCodecStream2);
+    try {
+      ShuffleUtils.shuffleToMemory(new byte[1024], new ByteArrayInputStream(header),
+          1024, 128, mockCodec2, false, 0, mock(Logger.class), null);
+      Assert.fail("shuffle was supposed to throw!");
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      Assert.assertTrue(e.getCause() instanceof InternalError);
+      Assert.assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains(codecErrorMsg));
+    }
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testShuffleToDiskChecksum() throws Exception {
     // verify sending a stream of zeroes without checksum validation