diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/authandtls/credentialhelper/CredentialHelper.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/authandtls/credentialhelper/CredentialHelper.java
index cf15e0f917c35a..d493dac75a1e31 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/authandtls/credentialhelper/CredentialHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/authandtls/credentialhelper/CredentialHelper.java
@@ -82,12 +82,8 @@ public GetCredentialsResponse getCredentials(CredentialHelperEnvironment environ
           GSON.toJson(GetCredentialsRequest.newBuilder().setUri(uri).build(), stdin);
         } catch (IOException e) {
           // This can happen if the helper prints a static set of credentials without reading from
-          // stdin (e.g., with a simple shell script running `echo "{...}"`). If the process is
-          // already finished even though we failed to write to its stdin, ignore the error and
-          // assume the process did not need the request payload.
-          if (!process.finished()) {
-            throw e;
-          }
+          // stdin (e.g., with a simple shell script running `echo "{...}"`). This is fine to
+          // ignore.
         }
 
         try {