diff --git a/src/rdb.c b/src/rdb.c
index cbcea96c6..5d34f5a32 100644
--- a/src/rdb.c
+++ b/src/rdb.c
@@ -2231,7 +2231,7 @@ int rdbLoadRio(rio *rdb, int rdbflags, rdbSaveInfo *rsi) {
          * received from the master. In the latter case, the master is
          * responsible for key expiry. If we would expire keys here, the
          * snapshot taken by the master may not be reflected on the slave. */
-        if (server.masterhost == NULL && !(rdbflags&RDBFLAGS_AOF_PREAMBLE) && expiretime != -1 && expiretime < now) {
+        if (iAmMaster() && !(rdbflags&RDBFLAGS_AOF_PREAMBLE) && expiretime != -1 && expiretime < now) {
             decrRefCount(key);
             decrRefCount(val);
         } else {
diff --git a/src/server.c b/src/server.c
index f702da94a..467d09b67 100644
--- a/src/server.c
+++ b/src/server.c
@@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@ void databasesCron(void) {
     /* Expire keys by random sampling. Not required for slaves
      * as master will synthesize DELs for us. */
     if (server.active_expire_enabled) {
-        if (server.masterhost == NULL) {
+        if (iAmMaster()) {
             activeExpireCycle(ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW);
         } else {
             expireSlaveKeys();
@@ -4863,6 +4863,11 @@ int redisIsSupervised(int mode) {
     return 0;
 }
 
+int iAmMaster(void) {
+    return ((!server.cluster_enabled && server.masterhost == NULL) ||
+            (server.cluster_enabled && nodeIsMaster(server.cluster->myself)));
+}
+
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     struct timeval tv;
diff --git a/src/server.h b/src/server.h
index fa6770dfa..fdfe5b8ea 100644
--- a/src/server.h
+++ b/src/server.h
@@ -2393,4 +2393,6 @@ int tlsConfigure(redisTLSContextConfig *ctx_config);
 #define redisDebugMark() \
     printf("-- MARK %s:%d --\n", __FILE__, __LINE__)
 
+int iAmMaster(void);
+
 #endif