diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/WALEntryStream.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/WALEntryStream.java
index c6268674c5b8..e2109a79eb2f 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/WALEntryStream.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/WALEntryStream.java
@@ -334,11 +334,22 @@ private HasNext tryAdvanceEntry() {
     boolean beingWritten = pair.getSecond();
     LOG.trace("Reading WAL {}; result={}, currently open for write={}", this.currentPath, state,
       beingWritten);
+    // The below implementation needs to make sure that when beingWritten == true, we should not
+    // dequeue the current WAL file in logQueue.
     switch (state) {
       case NORMAL:
         // everything is fine, just return
         return HasNext.YES;
       case EOF_WITH_TRAILER:
+        // in readNextEntryAndRecordReaderPosition, we will acquire rollWriteLock, and we can only
+        // schedule a close writer task, in which we will write trailer, under the rollWriteLock, so
+        // typically if beingWritten == true, we should not reach here, as we need to reopen the
+        // reader after writing the trailer. The only possible way to reach here while beingWritten
+        // == true is due to the inflightWALClosures logic in AbstractFSWAL, as if the writer is
+        // still in this map, we will consider it as beingWritten, but actually, here we could make
+        // sure that the new WAL file has already been enqueued into the logQueue, so here dequeuing
+        // the current log file is safe.
+        assert !beingWritten || logQueue.getQueue(walGroupId).size() > 1;
         // we have reached the trailer, which means this WAL file has been closed cleanly and we
         // have finished reading it successfully, just move to the next WAL file and let the upper
         // layer start reading the next WAL file
@@ -436,6 +447,16 @@ private void dequeueCurrentLog() {
    * Returns whether the file is opened for writing.
    */
   private Pair<WALTailingReader.State, Boolean> readNextEntryAndRecordReaderPosition() {
+    // we must call this before actually reading from the reader, as this method will acquire the
+    // rollWriteLock. This is very important, as we will enqueue the new WAL file in postLogRoll,
+    // and before this happens, we could have already finished closing the previous WAL file. If we
+    // do not acquire the rollWriteLock and return whether the current file is being written to, we
+    // may finish reading the previous WAL file and start to read the next one, before it is
+    // enqueued into the logQueue, thus lead to an empty logQueue and make the shipper think the
+    // queue is already ended and quit. See HBASE-28114 and related issues for more details.
+    // in the future, if we want to optimize the logic here, for example, do not call this method
+    // every time, or do not acquire rollWriteLock in the implementation of this method, we need to
+    // carefully review the optimized implementation
     OptionalLong fileLength = walFileLengthProvider.getLogFileSizeIfBeingWritten(currentPath);
     WALTailingReader.Result readResult = reader.next(fileLength.orElse(-1));
     long readerPos = readResult.getEntryEndPos();