diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/listener/FailedBatchProcessor.java b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/listener/FailedBatchProcessor.java
index 622ec87459..343b40b1b8 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/listener/FailedBatchProcessor.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/listener/FailedBatchProcessor.java
@@ -44,12 +44,12 @@
  * the listener throws a {@link BatchListenerFailedException}, the offsets prior to the
  * failed record are committed and the remaining records have seeks performed. When the
  * retries are exhausted, the failed record is sent to the recoverer instead of being
- * included in the seeks. If other exceptions are thrown processing is delegated to the
- * fallback handler.
+ * included in the seeks. If other exceptions are thrown, the fallback handler takes the processing.
  *
  * @author Gary Russell
  * @author Francois Rosiere
  * @author Wang Zhiyang
+ * @author Artem Bilan
  * @since 2.8
  *
  */
@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ public abstract class FailedBatchProcessor extends FailedRecordProcessor {
 	 * Construct an instance with the provided properties.
 	 * @param recoverer the recoverer.
 	 * @param backOff the back off.
-	 * @param fallbackHandler the fall back handler.
+	 * @param fallbackHandler the fallback handler.
 	 */
 	public FailedBatchProcessor(@Nullable BiConsumer<ConsumerRecord<?, ?>, Exception> recoverer, BackOff backOff,
-								CommonErrorHandler fallbackHandler) {
+			CommonErrorHandler fallbackHandler) {
 
 		this(recoverer, backOff, null, fallbackHandler);
 	}
@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ public FailedBatchProcessor(@Nullable BiConsumer<ConsumerRecord<?, ?>, Exception
 	 * @param recoverer the recoverer.
 	 * @param backOff the back off.
 	 * @param backOffHandler the {@link BackOffHandler}
-	 * @param fallbackHandler the fall back handler.
+	 * @param fallbackHandler the fallback handler.
 	 * @since 2.9
 	 */
 	public FailedBatchProcessor(@Nullable BiConsumer<ConsumerRecord<?, ?>, Exception> recoverer, BackOff backOff,
-								@Nullable BackOffHandler backOffHandler, CommonErrorHandler fallbackHandler) {
+			@Nullable BackOffHandler backOffHandler, CommonErrorHandler fallbackHandler) {
 
 		super(recoverer, backOff, backOffHandler);
 		this.fallbackBatchHandler = fallbackHandler;
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ public void setLogLevel(Level logLevel) {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Set to false to not reclassify the exception if different from the previous
+	 * Set to {@code false} to not reclassify the exception if different from the previous
 	 * failure. If the changed exception is classified as retryable, the existing back off
 	 * sequence is used; a new sequence is not started. Default true. Only applies when
 	 * the fallback batch error handler (for exceptions other than
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ private void fallback(Exception thrownException, ConsumerRecords<?, ?> data, Con
 		this.fallbackBatchHandler.handleBatch(thrownException, data, consumer, container, invokeListener);
 	}
 
-	private int findIndex(ConsumerRecords<?, ?> data, ConsumerRecord<?, ?> record) {
+	private int findIndex(ConsumerRecords<?, ?> data, @Nullable ConsumerRecord<?, ?> record) {
 		if (record == null) {
 			return -1;
 		}
@@ -229,57 +229,60 @@ private <K, V> ConsumerRecords<K, V> seekOrRecover(Exception thrownException, @N
 				remaining.add(datum);
 			}
 		}
+
 		try {
-			if (offsets.size() > 0) {
+			if (!offsets.isEmpty()) {
 				commit(consumer, container, offsets);
 			}
 		}
-		finally {
-			if (isSeekAfterError()) {
-				if (remaining.size() > 0) {
-					SeekUtils.seekOrRecover(thrownException, remaining, consumer, container, false,
-							getFailureTracker(), this.logger, getLogLevel());
-					ConsumerRecord<?, ?> recovered = remaining.get(0);
-					commit(consumer, container,
-							Collections.singletonMap(new TopicPartition(recovered.topic(), recovered.partition()),
-									ListenerUtils.createOffsetAndMetadata(container, recovered.offset() + 1)));
-					if (remaining.size() > 1) {
-						throw new KafkaException("Seek to current after exception", getLogLevel(), thrownException);
-					}
+		catch (Exception ex) {
+			// Ignore and follow with seek below
+		}
+
+		if (isSeekAfterError()) {
+			if (!remaining.isEmpty()) {
+				SeekUtils.seekOrRecover(thrownException, remaining, consumer, container, false,
+						getFailureTracker(), this.logger, getLogLevel());
+				ConsumerRecord<?, ?> recovered = remaining.get(0);
+				commit(consumer, container,
+						Collections.singletonMap(new TopicPartition(recovered.topic(), recovered.partition()),
+								ListenerUtils.createOffsetAndMetadata(container, recovered.offset() + 1)));
+				if (remaining.size() > 1) {
+					throw new KafkaException("Seek to current after exception", getLogLevel(), thrownException);
 				}
-				return ConsumerRecords.empty();
 			}
-			else {
-				if (remaining.size() > 0) {
-					try {
-						if (getFailureTracker().recovered(remaining.get(0), thrownException, container,
-								consumer)) {
-							remaining.remove(0);
-						}
-					}
-					catch (Exception e) {
-						if (SeekUtils.isBackoffException(thrownException)) {
-							this.logger.debug(e, () -> KafkaUtils.format(remaining.get(0))
-									+ " included in remaining due to retry back off " + thrownException);
-						}
-						else {
-							this.logger.error(e, KafkaUtils.format(remaining.get(0))
-									+ " included in remaining due to " + thrownException);
-						}
+			return ConsumerRecords.empty();
+		}
+		else {
+			if (!remaining.isEmpty()) {
+				try {
+					if (getFailureTracker().recovered(remaining.get(0), thrownException, container,
+							consumer)) {
+						remaining.remove(0);
 					}
 				}
-				if (remaining.isEmpty()) {
-					return ConsumerRecords.empty();
+				catch (Exception e) {
+					if (SeekUtils.isBackoffException(thrownException)) {
+						this.logger.debug(e, () -> KafkaUtils.format(remaining.get(0))
+								+ " included in remaining due to retry back off " + thrownException);
+					}
+					else {
+						this.logger.error(e, KafkaUtils.format(remaining.get(0))
+								+ " included in remaining due to " + thrownException);
+					}
 				}
-				Map<TopicPartition, List<ConsumerRecord<K, V>>> remains = new HashMap<>();
-				remaining.forEach(rec -> remains.computeIfAbsent(new TopicPartition(rec.topic(), rec.partition()),
-						tp -> new ArrayList<>()).add((ConsumerRecord<K, V>) rec));
-				return new ConsumerRecords<>(remains);
 			}
+			if (remaining.isEmpty()) {
+				return ConsumerRecords.empty();
+			}
+			Map<TopicPartition, List<ConsumerRecord<K, V>>> remains = new HashMap<>();
+			remaining.forEach(rec -> remains.computeIfAbsent(new TopicPartition(rec.topic(), rec.partition()),
+					tp -> new ArrayList<>()).add((ConsumerRecord<K, V>) rec));
+			return new ConsumerRecords<>(remains);
 		}
 	}
 
-	private void commit(Consumer<?, ?> consumer, MessageListenerContainer container,
+	private static void commit(Consumer<?, ?> consumer, MessageListenerContainer container,
 			Map<TopicPartition, OffsetAndMetadata> offsets) {
 
 		ContainerProperties properties = container.getContainerProperties();
@@ -296,7 +299,7 @@ private void commit(Consumer<?, ?> consumer, MessageListenerContainer container,
 	}
 
 	@Nullable
-	private BatchListenerFailedException getBatchListenerFailedException(Throwable throwableArg) {
+	private static BatchListenerFailedException getBatchListenerFailedException(@Nullable Throwable throwableArg) {
 		if (throwableArg == null || throwableArg instanceof BatchListenerFailedException) {
 			return (BatchListenerFailedException) throwableArg;
 		}