diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/service/DirectoryDeletingService.java b/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/service/DirectoryDeletingService.java
index 001e686455f1..39978e8f6e2f 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/service/DirectoryDeletingService.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/service/DirectoryDeletingService.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -394,6 +395,7 @@ private Optional<PurgePathRequest> prepareDeleteDirRequest(
         keyManager.getPendingDeletionSubDirs(volumeBucketId.getVolumeId(), volumeBucketId.getBucketId(),
             pendingDeletedDirInfo, keyInfo -> true, remainingBufLimit);
     List<OmKeyInfo> subDirs = subDirDeleteResult.getKeysToDelete();
+    subDirs.forEach(omKeyInfo -> omKeyInfo.setAcls(Collections.emptyList()));
     remainingBufLimit -= subDirDeleteResult.getConsumedSize();
 
     OMMetadataManager omMetadataManager = keyManager.getMetadataManager();
@@ -412,6 +414,7 @@ private Optional<PurgePathRequest> prepareDeleteDirRequest(
         keyManager.getPendingDeletionSubFiles(volumeBucketId.getVolumeId(), volumeBucketId.getBucketId(),
             pendingDeletedDirInfo, keyInfo -> purgeDir || reclaimableFileFilter.apply(keyInfo), remainingBufLimit);
     List<OmKeyInfo> subFiles = subFileDeleteResult.getKeysToDelete();
+    subFiles.forEach(omKeyInfo -> omKeyInfo.setAcls(Collections.emptyList()));
 
     if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
       for (OmKeyInfo fileInfo : subFiles) {