diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveQuerySuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveQuerySuite.scala
index af45dfd6e28c2..5a410915d9722 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveQuerySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveQuerySuite.scala
@@ -413,6 +413,13 @@ class HiveQuerySuite extends HiveComparisonTest with BeforeAndAfter {
   createQueryTest("select null from table",
     "SELECT null FROM src LIMIT 1")
 
+  createQueryTest("predicates contains an empty AttributeSet() references",
+    """
+      |SELECT a FROM (
+      |  SELECT 1 AS a FROM src LIMIT 1 ) table
+      |WHERE abs(20141202) is not null
+    """.stripMargin)
+
   test("implement identity function using case statement") {
     val actual = sql("SELECT (CASE key WHEN key THEN key END) FROM src")
       .map { case Row(i: Int) => i }