diff --git a/backends/arm/_passes/arm_pass_manager.py b/backends/arm/_passes/arm_pass_manager.py
index 70470890317..037b2bb8bbd 100644
--- a/backends/arm/_passes/arm_pass_manager.py
+++ b/backends/arm/_passes/arm_pass_manager.py
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@
 from executorch.exir.pass_manager import PassManager
 from executorch.exir.passes.remove_graph_asserts_pass import RemoveGraphAssertsPass
 from torch.fx import GraphModule
+from torch.fx.passes.infra.pass_base import PassResult
+from torch.nn.modules import Module
 
 
 class ArmPassManager(PassManager):
@@ -355,3 +357,20 @@ def transform_for_annotation_pipeline(self, graph_module: GraphModule):
             self.add_pass(DecomposeMaskedFill())
 
         return self._transform(graph_module)
+
+    def __call__(self, module: Module) -> PassResult:
+        try:
+            return super().__call__(module)
+        except Exception as e:
+            first_exception = e.__cause__ or e.__context__ or e
+            import re
+
+            message = e.args[0]
+            m = re.search(r"An error occurred when running the '([^']+)' pass", message)
+            if m:
+                pass_name = m.group(1)
+                first_exception.args = (
+                    f"{pass_name}: {first_exception.args[0]}",
+                    *first_exception.args[1:],
+                )
+            raise first_exception