diff --git a/daemon/logger/jsonfilelog/jsonfilelog.go b/daemon/logger/jsonfilelog/jsonfilelog.go
index 490e84ca9c..09012c59c6 100644
--- a/daemon/logger/jsonfilelog/jsonfilelog.go
+++ b/daemon/logger/jsonfilelog/jsonfilelog.go
@@ -357,6 +357,17 @@ func followLogs(f *os.File, logWatcher *logger.LogWatcher, notifyRotate chan int
 					retries++
 					continue
 				}
+
+				// io.ErrUnexpectedEOF is returned from json.Decoder when there is
+				// remaining data in the parser's buffer while an io.EOF occurs.
+				// If the json logger writes a partial json log entry to the disk
+				// while at the same time the decoder tries to decode it, the race codition happens.
+				if err == io.ErrUnexpectedEOF && retries <= maxJSONDecodeRetry {
+					reader := io.MultiReader(dec.Buffered(), f)
+					dec = json.NewDecoder(reader)
+					retries++
+					continue
+				}
 				logWatcher.Err <- err
 				return
 			}