diff --git a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/master/MasterImpl.java b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/master/MasterImpl.java
index 213984ae982ae6..ad4f1a1bacdb09 100644
--- a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/master/MasterImpl.java
+++ b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/master/MasterImpl.java
@@ -683,12 +683,8 @@ private void finishCalcDeleteBitmap(AgentTask task, TFinishTaskRequest request)
         // and if meta is missing, we no longer need to resend this task
         try {
             CalcDeleteBitmapTask calcDeleteBitmapTask = (CalcDeleteBitmapTask) task;
-            if (request.getTaskStatus().getStatusCode() != TStatusCode.OK) {
-                calcDeleteBitmapTask.countDownToZero(request.getTaskStatus().getStatusCode(),
-                        "backend: " + task.getBackendId() + ", error_tablet_size: "
-                                + request.getErrorTabletIdsSize() + ", err_msg: "
-                                + request.getTaskStatus().getErrorMsgs().toString());
-            } else if (request.isSetRespPartitions()
+            // check if the request is stale first, if so, let it retry regardless of the status code
+            if (request.isSetRespPartitions()
                     && calcDeleteBitmapTask.isFinishRequestStale(request.getRespPartitions())) {
                 LOG.warn("get staled response from backend: {}, report version: {}. calcDeleteBitmapTask's"
                         + "partitionInfos: {}. response's partitionInfos: {}", task.getBackendId(),
@@ -699,6 +695,11 @@ private void finishCalcDeleteBitmap(AgentTask task, TFinishTaskRequest request)
                 calcDeleteBitmapTask.countDownToZero(TStatusCode.DELETE_BITMAP_LOCK_ERROR,
                         "get staled response from backend " + task.getBackendId() + ", report version: "
                                 + request.getReportVersion());
+            } else if (request.getTaskStatus().getStatusCode() != TStatusCode.OK) {
+                calcDeleteBitmapTask.countDownToZero(request.getTaskStatus().getStatusCode(),
+                        "backend: " + task.getBackendId() + ", error_tablet_size: " + request.getErrorTabletIdsSize()
+                                + ", error_tablets: " + request.getErrorTabletIds()
+                                + ", err_msg: " + request.getTaskStatus().getErrorMsgs().toString());
             } else {
                 calcDeleteBitmapTask.countDownLatch(task.getBackendId(), calcDeleteBitmapTask.getTransactionId());
                 if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {