diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
index 42e0a0f20133e..78c23f2ef6b7d 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
@@ -144,11 +144,19 @@ class CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend(scheduler: TaskSchedulerImpl, actorSystem: A
         val ser = SparkEnv.get.closureSerializer.newInstance()
         val serializedTask = ser.serialize(task)
         if (serializedTask.limit >= akkaFrameSize - 1024) {
-          var msg = "Serialized task %s:%d was %d bytes which " +
-            "exceeds spark.akka.frameSize (%d bytes). " +
-            "Consider using broadcast variables for large values."
-          msg = msg.format(task.taskId, task.index, serializedTask.limit, akkaFrameSize)
-          scheduler.error(msg)
+          val taskSetId = scheduler.taskIdToTaskSetId(task.taskId)
+          scheduler.activeTaskSets.get(taskSetId).foreach { taskSet =>
+            try {
+              var msg = "Serialized task %s:%d was %d bytes which " +
+                "exceeds spark.akka.frameSize (%d bytes). " +
+                "Consider using broadcast variables for large values."
+              msg = msg.format(task.taskId, task.index, serializedTask.limit, akkaFrameSize)
+              taskSet.abort(msg)
+            } catch {
+              case e: Exception => logError("Exception in error callback", e)
+            }
+          }
+          // scheduler.error(msg)
           // TODO: Need to throw an exception?
           // throw new SparkException(msg)
         }
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackendSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackendSuite.scala
index 79bfb8d0dfe78..9cd7c85698732 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackendSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackendSuite.scala
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ package org.apache.spark.scheduler
 import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkException, SparkContext}
 import org.apache.spark.util.{SerializableBuffer, AkkaUtils}
 import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._
-import java.nio.ByteBuffer
 
 import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfterAll, BeforeAndAfter, FunSuite}
 
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ class CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackendSuite extends FunSuite with
     val conf = new SparkConf
     val sc = new SparkContext("local-cluster[2 , 1 , 512]", "test", conf)
     val frameSize = AkkaUtils.maxFrameSizeBytes(sc.conf)
-    val buffer = new SerializableBuffer(ByteBuffer.allocate(2 * frameSize))
+    val buffer = new SerializableBuffer(java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(2 * frameSize))
     val larger = sc.parallelize(Seq(buffer))
     val thrown = intercept[SparkException] {
       larger.collect()